[OT] upgrading Linux to 64 bit

[Peter Alcibiades]

That is what I did, on both my own machine and another - just left the /home
partition alone and did a new installation wiping the / partition.  

But.  There are a couple of things to be careful of.  Your menus may end up
with a lot of junk in them unless the packages stay exactly the same.  Mine
did, lots of obsolete entries that had to be cleaned up by hand.  And your /
partition may not be big enough.  And I am not sure about VMs, whether the
64 bit version will install and work perfectly with the disk files which I
keep on /home.  I did my virtual box installs and created the virtual drives
in 64 bit mode.  I am not sure whether when they are created with a 32 bit
version they would still work the same with a 64 bit version.

I have found the latest versions of gnome and kde quite impossible, but the
latest version of mate is wonderful and is a perfect replacement for gnome 2
for people who don't like the quirks of xfce4.  Claws is a pretty decent
replacement for both evolution and kontact.  Cherrytree is superb
replacement for kjots.  I don't know what the kde people were thinking of to
wreck a very nice package like that.  But then what were the gnome people
thinking.  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.



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