[ale] 64-bit vs 32-bit?

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 07:54 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Firefox works fine. It's stupid flash that's a bear. There's a 64 bit
> > version but you have to dig for it.
> > Official Java is not 64 bit for Linux but GnuJava is and seems to suit
> > all of my needs.
>
> Iced Tea seems to work pretty well for me.
>

Been happy with Iced Tea for a while. Not using any java quicklaunch stuff.
That may change shortly.

>
> And as for Flash... try Gentoo.  Seriously.  I don't know what they did
> to Flash, but it works.  FAST.  BLAZING.  Seriously.  And it doesn't
> chew up all my cores!
>

MIRACLES! Hey Jeff Hubbs! Gentoo dude, what's up with this??? Confirm, deny?
Kick Trausch off the list? :-)

flash is a pig on Fedora 14 64-bit with 8G. Scrolling the browser screen
with a flash widget is very crunchy. Gnome window manager likely culprit...

>
>        --- Mike
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