HP Pavilion LapTop, AMD Turion 64 cpu

[Dan]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 00:21, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>   
>> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>>     
>>> I just bought this thing, and have spent the evening doing a little
>>> housecleaning and exploring using the deafult XP Home edition OS
>>> thats on it, and trying to get used to the 'mouse' tablet as a
>>> navigator tool and have a few questions.  And please excuse me but
>>> this is the first 'windoze' machine I've ever bought.
>>>       
>> I just did the same thing with a different HP Turion-based laptop
>> (Compaq v5000z).  The steps I took were:
>>
>> 1) boot the stock os and run the defragmention tool.
>> 2) download the "gpartd" iso and burn onto cd/dvd.
>> 3) boot the gpartd dvd and reduce the first partition size to
>>   something much lower.
>> 4) download and burn fc5 onto a dvd
>> 5) boot the fc5 dvd and have it use the "unused space" as the FC5
>>   partition
>>
>>     
> Thanks, sounds like a decent plan to follow.
>
>   
>> So far I haven't reclaimed the D partition, but if push comes to shove
>>   I just tack it on to the end of the linux partition.
>>
>>     
>>> If I wanted to put linux on this, should I use the i386 dvd of FC5 I
>>> already have, or go get the AMD64 version?
>>>       
>> Personally I got an amd64 to do 64-bit address space things with.
>> Running it in 32-bit mode seemed really wasteful.
>>     
>
> Well, many of the linux apps aren't 64 bit clean yet, and I'd druther 
> have the ability to run _anything_...
>
>   
Unlike Windows, about 95% of linux apps are 64-bit ready. The exceptions 
that I have come across are wine, openoffice.org (64-bit version in 
development), and various browser plugins (flash, adobe, java, to name a 
few). The 32-bit versions of Wine and OOo work fine for me, so the only 
real issue really is browser plugins. Apparently, Sun and Adobe feel the 
need to redo the entire plugins to make them 64-bit optimized? The other 
argument they've used is that 64-bit is not in mainstream use yet so it 
is not a priority. Either way, it's not done. I've heard of workarounds 
involving a plugin wrapper, or just installing 32-bit firefox/whatever 
alongside, so it is possible, but I don't use my 64-bit computer for 
heavy internet browsing at the moment. The only other issue I could 
think you might have is if you have an ATI video card, apparently 64-bit 
ATI drivers are having issues. I don't have an ATI card on my 64-bit 
machine so I don't know any details.
-Dan
>>> Thats enough questions for one message I think, and many thanks to
>>> those who attempt to help a windows newbie get back to his favorite
>>> OS. :-)
>>>       
>> I know very little about ms-windows. The only thing I found it useful
>> for was to test the wireless card.  The broadcom-based card in my
>> machine (bcm4318) still doesn't show up under FC5 but works fine on
>> the stock os.
>>     
>
> So does this one, but theres no other 802-11 stuff within reach I guess.  
> I don't have any as the one long piece of cat5 I have would, if 
> replaced by an 802-11 lashup, probably be a wee bit too long for stock 
> antennas.  Or drown out the neighbors should they ever want to do that.
>
> Thanks Wolfgang.
>
>   
>> -wolfgang
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