On 06/27/2010 09:19 AM, John W Foster wrote: > TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are > designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with > GPLed source code available...Please send me the site of the apps, if > they are your creations I would like to package them for Debian. I am > not a Debian developer and not qualified to repackage them for Debian > distro. I will however make those available for public consumption if > you wish it, on a non-developer site. Its a real shame that I waited 5 > years to build a proper 64bit system then I discover there is VERY > little native 64bit software available. > Thanks > John > > > As far as I'm aware, Debian's AMD64 repo is mostly 64bit, with only exceptions being certain 3rd party apps from vendors like Adobe.
Under certain circumstances, it's often better to have a 32bit firefox, 32bit java browser plugin, et cetera. This is b/c the 64bit Adobe Flash plugin tends to be... hard to come by (the beta was closed recently). I wouldn't be overly concerned, unless you find an app that is broken on 64bit (an old one from Debian Lenny [and older] is procinfo-18. Squeeze replaces it with [my] procinfo-ng. I really should make another release of procinfo-ng).
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