FC 64 bits on Intel Core 2 duo

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 16 12:40:05 UTC 2006


James Wilkinson wrote:
> Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>> There was no 64 bit browser plugins (flash and java, mainly), no 64 bit 
>> codecs for mplayer and a lot more importante stuff was not available. Has 
>> this been improved in the last couple of years?
> 
> What do you count as important? Most open source software is fine with
> 64 bits, in my experience. The big exception has been OpenOffice and
> software that needs to talk to closed source software.
> 

Openoffice.org has a 64-bit version in FC6 from the work done by the Red 
Hat maintainer.

Rahul




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