[K12OSN] 64 bit Intel with HT or 64 bit AMD dual core?

[Angus Carr]

I've had to provide a stand-alone machine for running firefox on 32-bit 
ever since we took our server to a 64-bit platform. Fortunately, they 
aren't really using it much, anyway. It's June - They're outside.

Angus Carr.

Eric Harrison wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Peter Hartmann wrote:
>
>> If you go 64 bit you
>>
>>> may have problems with binary only browser plugins
>>
>>
>> Would that be true even if you used a 32 bit firefox?
>
>
> Binary plugins are not a problem if you use a 32 bit firefox.  On the 
> other hand, this creates a new problem: installing a 32 bit firefox ;-)
>
> Hmm, now that I think about it, a few tweaks to the apt/yum
> repository might make this pretty easy to do. I won't have access to 
> my test servers until Monday, I'll send myself a
> note to try this next week.
>
> -Eric
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
>> On 6/7/05, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/7/05, Jim Christiansen <christiansen_j at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I forgot to mention that I'm looking for horsepower to run more 
>>>> than 80
>>>> clients at the same time...
>>>
>>>
>>> Go dual Opterons. They have built in memory controllers and dedicated
>>> memory banks. For 80 clients you will need 8 gigs of ram. So use
>>> hugemem kernel in 4.2.1EL or install AMD64 arch. If you go 64 bit you
>>> may have problems with binary only browser plugins.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Robert Arkiletian
>>> C++ GUI tutorial http://fltk.org/links.php?V19
>>
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