Sabayon Screencast

[Paul A Houle]

>BTW I know it's not really Fedora's problem, but I don't think it's
>possible to install a flash-enabled i386 Firefox on x86_64 anymore
>
>This promises to be fun at FC5 time
>  
>
    Hey,  rpm --erase and use the installer from mozilla.org to install 
a 32-bit Mozilla,  then install flash.  Morality aside,  32-bit mplayer 
can still link Windows DLL's...  My main frustration is that the 
joystick ioctls changed going to 64-bit and that breaks most 32-bit games.

    Other operating systems install 32-bit applications under a 64-bit 
kernel.  For instance,  Solaris 10 installs a largely 32-bit userspace 
on both Sparc64 and AMD64.  This has the nice effect that the same 
Solaris 10 disk installs on both x86-32 and x86-64.  This is probably a 
good choice for SPARC,  but AMD64 gets a performance boost from the 
extra registers.

    64-bit Windows ships with a 32-bit IE,  largely for compatibility 
with Active X controls.

    The proprietary nature of flash burns me up too,  but it's highly 
effective and widely used...  Pretty much a requirement for any machine 
I use for serious web browsing.  The worst thing is that a lot of sites 
use broken "flash detection" algorithms that assume a Linux browser will 
never support flash.