well microsoft has made good improvements with WSL and you can do some neat things like that On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:27 AM Michael Butash wrote: > Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics > drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv. > > My experience with arch hasn't been much better of late, so take it for > what you will. Arch updates blew up my desktop, and my laptop I'm afraid > to reboot as my last working device. If I didn't hate windoze so much, I > might actually try it again, but it's performance on my xps15 was absolute > shite with the 4k display. Like mouse lag randomly just to screw with me > and slow down everything working. > > -mb > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> It is most definitely 64 bit. I had 64 bit 16.04 running like a champ >> until the 18.04 upgrade was done. >> >> It also ran vmware 6.7 well also. >> >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 9:02 PM Thomas Scott >> wrote: >> >>> I know I had a legacy install on a Proliant I supported that was >>> installed upside down and burnt out it's drives after a few years >>> (surprised it lasted that long). When I came on-site to reinstall it, I >>> tried to install 16.04 since I already had the install media on me, I >>> couldn't as it had issues with the RAID array controller. I had to roll >>> back to 14.04 and then upgrade it to maintain compatibility. I had a >>> similar issue with CentOS6/7 a bout a year ago as well, also on HP servers. >>> In my experience, both times it was the RAID controller. >>> >>> >>> Thomas Scott >>> about.me/thomas.scott >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:47 PM Todd Cole wrote: >>> >>>> I suspect it may be 32Bit computer but it should give you a i386 >>>> hardware error during installation. >>>> while 18.04 is only 64 bit you can use the net install at >>>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/bionic/ >>>> it has a community supported 32 bit version available >>>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:24 PM Stephen Partington < >>>> cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have an older Proliant server I am trying to make use of at home. >>>>> The hardware is fully functional, and aside from needing some spare drive >>>>> sleds, It is ready to go. >>>>> >>>>> However, I cannot run 18.04 on the server and I suspect it is related >>>>> to changes in the kernel and I am trying to map those. >>>>> >>>>> The Architecture is Dual Opteron quad-core Processors and DDR2 ECC >>>>> Registered memory. I think it is a DL 365 Gen 1 (would have to look to make >>>>> sure) >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have thoughts on how I could gracefully get this >>>>> hardware to a current kernel? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >>>>> >>>>> Stephen >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen