Firefox & Flash

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:26:31 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > Rick, i'm curious.  What applications are you running that need a 64bit
> > address space?
>
> Wel I have a AMD64 and Suse9.2 puts on a 64 and a 32 bit libs and a system.
>
> COLORTERM=1
> COLUMNS=85
> CPU=x86_64
> CVS_RSH=ssh
> DIRSTACK=()
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> EUID=0
> ...
> ...
> ...
> HOST=RSivernell
> HOSTNAME=RSivernell
> HOSTTYPE=x86_64
> IFS=$' \t\n'
> ...
> ...
> ...
> MACHTYPE=x86_64-suse-linux
>
> So from this I gather I am running a 64bit system, as to why, why not, not that
> everything has to be 64bit. I would assume most things have not been converted to
> 64bit, but even 32bit will run faster.
>
> I just notice that some things will not load in a 64bit system, like flash in Firefox.
> Those who do not are few however.

>From your answer it doesn't sound like you have any apps that benefit from
running in a 64bit environment.   I guess i just don't understand why
people are rushing out to run 64bit Linux distros just so that they can
surf the web & check email. *shrug*

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