Firefox & Flash

[Mike Reinehr]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 02:56 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> I just notice that some things will not load in a 64bit system, like flash
> in Firefox. Those who do not are few however.

Rick,

I've been running three servers with Debian "pure64" AMD64 for just under a 
year, now, and follow the AMD64 mailing list. Apparently, out of the 
thousands of available Debian packages only some 200 or so will not compile 
or run as 64-bit binaries. Unfortunately, OO.org, Wine & Flash are among 
those. :-(

Ubuntu, Suse & (I guess) RedHat get around this by engineering their own, 
multi-architecture systems, including both 32-bit & 64-bit libraries and 
running the problem applications as 32-bit app's. By the time that everyone 
can agree upon a true, standard multi-arch system design, most of those 
remaining programs probably will have been fixed and the question will be 
moot.

Cheers!

cmr
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