2008/7/5 Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Usually you'll come quite quickly on a need for the 32bit libraries, be it > for (I'm not sure I'm correct or updated with all my examples) Flash plug-in > for your browser (or other browser issues, like firebug extension, although > I think in FF3 this is solved), Sun Java JRE and some other propriety or > closed source applications/libraries (perhaps skype client as well, for > sound device usage, not sure). > > In any case, I don't think there's any harm from installing those libraries > so I guess that either way is safe and ok to go.
My personal experience is that 64 bit (7.10 and 8.04) on Desktop wasn't worth the hassle if you want to use proprietary software - Flash never worked well (non-Adobe aren't there yet) and other proprietary software (Picasa, possibly Google Earth but this week I noticed that they have 64-bit version for that) also was a hassle to install and then didn't work (don't remember details). I since switched to 32-bit and forgot all about it. Back when I had 64 bit, I followed all sorts of how-to's on getting things working with it and it never was right (e.g. Flash never worked). Now with 32 bit on my desktop and laptop, I don't see any disadvantages (it doesn't feel any slower and it can make use of the 2Gb RAM I have). I don't use my desktops for C/C++ development. I do most of my dev in Perl now and use (64bit) CentOS servers for production deployment. Your requirements may vary. --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
