Re: chicken and egg problem?

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Steve Searle wrote:
Around 02:28pm on Monday, November 13, 2006 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled:

The only real issues with 64-bit is that the common browser plugins (Flash being the biggest), don't work with 64-bit. You've got two options, either run the 32-bit binary browser for when you need the plugins, or there is an app called nspluginwrapper that will allow you to wrap 32-bit plgins into a 64-bit browser. Either option works pretty well, but I'm getting partial to the plugin wrapper.

I battled to try and get Flash working on a 64bit install.  I got
nspluginwrapper to run, but not to produce sound.  Eventually gave up
and switched back to 32 bit Fedora (FC5).

As for running the 32-bit version of linux, you'd lose a ton of performance if you did, IMHO.

I noticed no difference in performance.  I am sure there is probably
some, but think describing this as "a ton of performance" is wrong.

This was FC5 on a AMD Atholon 3200+, btw.

Steve

FWIW, I see a ton of difference on my 3500+, between FC5 64-bit and 32 bit. But then I switched to gentoo on this box and there's really no comparison.


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Mark Haney
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