Jeffrey Ross wrote:
bought a new machine (yeah) its a dual core pentium D. So I figured I'd
load the 64 bit version of Linux, great it works fine. I attempt to start
loading plugins for my browser and find that they are only 32 bit apps,
some work and others like the Adobe Acrobat won't even run. I got the
Flash player to install by modifying the install script to ignore the
hardware type.
Am I better off at this point just running the 32 bit version of Linux or
am I missing something here in how I load applications?
TIA, Jeff
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.
As for running the 32-bit version of linux, you'd lose a ton of
performance if you did, IMHO.
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