On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:27:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 09/15/07 03:57, pietia wrote: >> hi >> >> Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian >> i386 ? >> >> Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? > >Since when was i386 *ever* faster than AMD64? > >> And what with missing packages like flash plugin ? > >Certain closed-source apps & plugins are only built for i386. There >are work-arounds for AMD64 systems running in 64-bit mode. Google to >find many web pages that describe how. > >There are certain open-source apps that code certain critical functions >in hand-tweaked 386 assembly if the build target is i386. I don't have >any specifics off the top of my head. Google should help.
So far, the only thing that I'm missing from Debian Sid AMD64 is a Sun Java browser plugin. Apparently there's no 64-bit version of it, despite the source now being available, and AFAIK there's no wrapper package in the repos. The non-free flashplugin has been sorted out with a wrapper for several weeks (months?) now. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus
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