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Cut In Half…Sort Of

I know, confusing title...though maybe some people get it already?

As mentioned in my previous post, I've upgraded both my graphics card, and my monitor recently - both of which, I love, especially the monitor...1920x1200 is a lovely resolution That said, I decided to reinstall Ubuntu last night, because I'd been running the same install since Alpha4 of Karmic, and I'd been experiencing a few oddities. I didn't know whether this was the 64 bit version I was running, or some odd config files left over from somewhere.

Because I was lazy, I used the Karmic CD I got from ShipIt, completely forgetting that these are 32 bit versions of Ubuntu, not 64 bit. I only realised once I'd booted into the system. The upside of this is that I noticed a couple of issues had gone, and that there really is little difference between the 32 bit or 64 bit. So much so, I'll be going back to 64 bit for Lucid Kudos to the developers though, the installer picked up my resolution perfectly on the LiveCD, and also noticed that I have 4GB RAM, so installed the PAE kernel without even asking! Colour me impressed!

All in all, reinstalling showed me a couple of new things that I seem to have missed out (mainly things like that on the installer), and it has indeed fixed a few issues. I estimate this install will last around 6 weeks, and then I'll install Lucid...but we'll have to wait and see....