32- versus 64-bit fedora on an AMD 64 mobile athlon?

Timothy Selivanow timothy.selivanow at virtualxistenz.com
Thu Dec 27 21:19:59 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 08:30 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > I recently acquired a dual-core HP system and installed 64-bit F7.9x
> > on it, principally because I may well max it on RAM (its used for
> > running virtual machines), and then removed all the 32-bit cruft.
> >
> > It's not given me any problems, but I have seen recent reports of
> > problems with 64-bit firefox and 32-bit plugins. I've also seen
> > reports some are resolvable.
> 
> that's the only issue i'm familiar with -- 64-bit firefox with 32-bit
> plugins.  but if there's nothing more serious than that, that doesn't
> worry me.  thanks.
> 
> rday
> --
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> Robert P. J. Day
> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
> 
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I run 64-bit firefox on two machines (one AMD the other intel) with
nspluginwrapper to get flash (installed from adobe's site) to work.  No
problems so far...


--Tim
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