Hi Jim, while this is a bit off-topic: Turning a 32-bit Ubuntu into a 64-bit one is tedious, so the recommended way is to just install the new over the old and keep your home directory.
A few commands in the shell can help you to, more or less, clone your old package selection into the new system, but there is no wizard to help you with that at all, which I found very disappointing given how smoothly their upgrade wizards usually lift you from one version of their whole distro to the next if you stay within the same bit-ness. So people just decide that 32-bit is dead and you end up with no longer getting updates from your distro, being forced to re-install more or less from scratch. In my case, I could not have stuck to the outdated packages, because the new graphics card only had 64-bit drivers. Nevertheless, I liked the time when dosemu could just use hardware vm86 for fast CPU access on 32-bit Linux. Now you always get emulated CPU, which of course does have advantages in some cases - such as running on ARM or emulating more aspects of real and protected mode. Also, dosemu2 gets FAR more frequent updates than dosemu. Regards, Eric PS: It also frustrates me that 4 GB are not enough for a few dozen browser tabs in 2024, neither with 32- nor with 64-bit Linux under the hood. I want efficient apps instead of repeatedly having to add more RAM or SSD swap. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
