Re: [OT] upgrading Linux to 64 bit

2015-05-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
king. Its like the linux DTE world all lost their senses at once. Fortunately if you use fluxbox it just carries on regardless, but for the poor average user, its a nightmare. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-upgrading-Linux-to-64-bit-tp46915

Re: [OT] upgrading Linux to 64 bit

2015-04-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond writes: > It would also be "fun" (?) to run the LiveCode 8.0.0 64 bit releases. Although if that's the driving force behind the migration, I'd put it off for (quite) a while. 8.0 currently runs very poorly on linux. Even worse that 7.x, which is somewhat usable even though extremely

Re: [OT] upgrading Linux to 64 bit

2015-04-28 Thread Richmond
On 28/04/15 22:56, Mark Wieder wrote: Peter TB Brett writes: When I transitioned from x86 to x86-64 Linux -- a few years ago now! -- I just carried my /home partition across to the new install and everything seemed to work absolutely fine. Just to be safe, you might also make sure your /etc a

Re: [OT] upgrading Linux to 64 bit

2015-04-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter TB Brett writes: > When I transitioned from x86 to x86-64 Linux -- a few years ago now! -- > I just carried my /home partition across to the new install and > everything seemed to work absolutely fine. Just to be safe, you might also make sure your /etc and /opt directories are backed up

Re: [OT] upgrading Linux to 64 bit

2015-04-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-04-28 07:52, Richmond wrote: I have been running an Ubuntu derivative 32 bit distro for some years now, and should like to upgrade to a 64 bit version. My hard drive is partitioned so that my /Home stuff is on a different partition to the Boot folder and so on. Can I "just" install a 64

[OT] upgrading Linux to 64 bit

2015-04-27 Thread Richmond
I have been running an Ubuntu derivative 32 bit distro for some years now, and should like to upgrade to a 64 bit version. My hard drive is partitioned so that my /Home stuff is on a different partition to the Boot folder and so on. Can I "just" install a 64 bit version via the "something els