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 -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 20:54:44 up 86 days, 23:21, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.02
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