any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 18:01:15 UTC 2008
Dave Feustel wrote:
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>>>> Go with 64 bit. I have gotten 3 machines with AMD64 processors and I have installed Fedora 10 Preview with 64 bit version and they are working nicely :) It(64 bit) will make full use of the machines capabilities and if it were not for the flash player and other proprietary stuff, 64 is the way to go :)
>>> As pointed out in a separate thread, adobe has finally stared working on
>>> and has an alpha version out of 64bit version of flash. Check the
>>> archives for the thread. So that argument isn't relevant any longer?
>> If flash is important to you, I think it is until is is proven to be as
>> reliable as the 32 bit version ;)
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> I have read that html 5 will make flash unnecessary.
>
> Is there any truth to that assertion?
It is supposed to include audio and video elements, but there's not much
reason to expect all the parties involved to ever agree on a standard
codec which leaves you pretty much in the same shape as needing flash.
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Les Mikesell
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