"i am willing to give this new one a shot. can i just fire up the hedgehog and update? does broadcom wireless work under the new AMD64 build? if i could get wireless to work quickly i would start using this OS."
I'm running the AMD64 build on my laptop and my Broadcom wireless card was detected by the install and is working perfectly. This is the first Linux distribution where I didn't have to setup ndiswrapper for the wireless card. I suggest playing around with the live CD first if you're planning on doing the install and are a little hesitant.
The main problems with 64 bit is that there is no flash plugin, no Java browser plugin and no win32 codecs available. If those items are really required they can be setup in a chroot environment which can be configured to be completely transparent to the user.
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"i am willing to give this new one a shot. can i just fire up the hedgehog and update? does broadcom wireless work under the new AMD64 build? if i could get wireless to work quickly i would start using this OS."
I'm running the AMD64 build on my laptop and my Broadcom wireless card was detected by the install and is working perfectly. This is the first Linux distribution where I didn't have to setup ndiswrapper for the wireless card. I suggest playing around with the live CD first if you're planning on doing the install and are a little hesitant.
The main problems with 64 bit is that there is no flash plugin, no Java browser plugin and no win32 codecs available. If those items are really required they can be setup in a chroot environment which can be configured to be completely transparent to the user.