On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:38:16AM -0700, Mike Hix wrote: > I have recently upgraded my hardware, upgrading to FC5, and I'm wondering > whether to use i386 or x86_64. [...] > Any additional information about the x86_64 packages and software > availability would be nice. Google wasn't very forthcoming on the subject. You can run i386 packages on x86_64, thanks to the frankenstein's monstrosity that is multilib. And you'll probably see a performance increase, but I haven't actually seen much by way of measuring the difference in a normal desktop Linux workload on the two. Be aware that Macromedia doesn't produce a 64-bit Flash player, so if Youtube is important to you, you'll need to run i386 Firefox even on x86_64. Depending on what you're doing, this may be enough of a pain that it's easier to just stick with i386 across the board. > > > > Thanks! > > > > - Mike > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
