14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, during the Ubuntu Developer Summit event for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, Canonical decided to recommend the 64-bit edition of Ubuntu, by default.
This announcement comes right after the shocking news that the ISO image of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will not fit on a CD anymore, instead USB sticks are recommended for installation.
Yes! Finally! This is what most of us were waiting for, as we are close to the year 2012, with amazing technologies around us, and most of the CPUs are 64-bit compatible.
It is true that most of us already use a 64-bit version of a Linux distribution for quite some time now, because it was the first operating system to provide x86_64/AMD64 support.
It is also a known fact that Canonical always recommended the 32-bit edition of Ubuntu to support all the existing hardware in the world.
That's not the case anymore, as the 64-bit technology is very common these days and it's much faster than the 32-bit one. Not to mention that apps such Adobe Flash Player 64-bit and OpenJDK 64-bit are already available.