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On Tuesday 15 August 2006 10:58 am, Matt Shields wrote: > You're running servers, right? Not running any desktop applications. My > personal hosted server is a dual core running CentOS 4.3 x86_64 and all > the server applications are fine. > > My question was more about Desktop Linux and Dual Core and whether it's a > waste of money. For example, even if I get FC5 64bit to install and run > X. There is no Macromedia Flash support for 64bit linux. And there are > a lot of other applications. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.4 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060527 SUSE/1.5.0.4-1.3 Firefox/1.5.0.4 A file on firefox-bin shows it is actually a 32-bit executable: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped And it includes Flash 7.0 r63. of course, Adobe Flash is now up to 9.0 and many web sites now require flash 8.0. The bottom line here is that Linux x86_64 can run 32-bit executables. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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