Kubuntu 64bit ONLY and nothing else...

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Hi!
First some background. I play with linux for some years now. Different flavors, different machines... Now I got dell workstation M90 (dual core, lots of RAM, Nvidia etc...). The question is this. I would like to install 64bit version of KUBUNTU (that particular distro has been recommended by many people as the most supportive of bluetooth, wifi, Nvidia etc). Now, what I really would like to get is exclusively 64bit installation and only 64bit software. If there is something not available, well, tough luck for me. All I want is a CLEAN 64bit machine. I tried the 64bit version of KUBUNTU (Gutsy Gibbon) but it seems that the packages are really mixed 64 and 32.
So, the specific question is this: is it possible to install CLEAN 64 KUBUNTU and point it to EXCLUSIVELY 64 repositories for software updates/upgrades?
THX!
Przemkoo

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Re: Kubuntu 64bit ONLY and nothing else...

The software design for MOST application packages is still 32-bit -- this is just the current reality regarding adoption of a 64-bit standard system. However, all the packages in the Ubuntu 64-bit repositories are packaged for the 64-bit OS, so they all run fine. You will not know whether any individual package is 32-bit or 64-bit, in the user experience.

I've been running exclusively 64-bit for about 18 months now, and it's fine -- no problem. I run VMWare Player, Flash (sometimes), Compiz, and all the applications that anyone needs, I think, including multimedia editing.

May I make a recommendation? Find a spare 15GB and install Kubuntu Hardy Heron 64-bit (beta, until April 24), and the KDE4 desktop. Play with it, do experiments, crash it if you can -- it will teach you what it is capable of. That's what I'm running today, and it is a very nice system, subject only to occasional minor breakage as both HH and KDE4 mature toward their release versions.