Experience with x86_64-only (no i386) in F10?

Globe Trotter itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 9 02:43:36 UTC 2008


Hi, 

I have this experience: I installed using a live F8 xfce spin cd and yum erased all 386/586/686 RPMs as you suggest. Thus, all my rpms are either x86_64 or noarch. Btw, I may be wrong on this, but I thought the F10 xfce spin cd (x86_64) did not have any ?86 RPMS. 

The only functionality I am missing is the flash: I was unaware of the 64-bt alpha adobe plugin. I have never quite understood why gnash does not work for me (even where it works, I don't get sound), but I haven't bothered a whole lot with it.

So, go ahead and try it out and see how things go for you.

HTH,
T




--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Steve Snyder <swsnyder at snydernet.net> wrote:

> From: Steve Snyder <swsnyder at snydernet.net>
> Subject: Experience with x86_64-only (no i386) in F10?
> To: "Fedora Mailing List" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 4:07 PM
> Hello.
> 
> I'm about to wipe my x86_64 F8 installation in
> preparation for 
> installing x86_64 F10.  Since I'll be doing a clean
> install, I'm 
> feeling adventurous.  My plan is to go 64-bit only - no
> 32-bit 
> binaries.  Mind if I ask a few questions?
> 
> 1. In prior versions of Fedora there was no provision for
> doing a 
> 64-bit-only installation.  You had to do a standard x86_64
> install, 
> then erase all the i386/i686 RPMs.  Is that still the case,
> or can I 
> opt at installation to only install x86_64 and noarch
> packages?
> 
> 2. What functionality will I be giving up to go
> 64-bit-only?  In times 
> past the immediate answers to this was Flash Player and the
> Sun JVM 
> browser plug-in.  Between the alpha 64-bit Flash Player
> (which I've 
> been successfully using for 3 weeks) and IcedTea, these
> drawbacks seem 
> to have been resolved.  Anything else?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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