T61 architecture

[Peter Lauri]

But what would the benefit of installing x86_64 be? Pros vs cons?

/Peter



On Nov 9, 2007 9:41 PM, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:15:45PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
>
> > I am a bit confused. Some sites on internet I found refer to a x86_64
> > installation and others to a i386 installation. Can both be done? What
> > is recommended in that case? I have just noticed that the x86_64 arch
> > is less supported by other software?
>
> You can do both.
>
> The x86_64 install will also install several packages (mainly libraries)
> in both 32- and 64-bit, so that you can run third-party 32-bit apps
> without problems.
>
> There is one important thing to consider: some third-party (proprietary)
> plugins for Firefox (like flashplayer and Acrobat reader) are only
> available in 32-bit mode and for these you need to run 32-bit Firefox.
> So, when running Firefox you also pull in several 32-bit libraries and
> thus have usually 2 active copies of these libraries in memory.
>
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