[Eug-lug] amd64 or x86?

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Bob Miller wrote:

> A question for those of you who have 64-bit capable processors: Do you
> run an "amd64" or "x86" distro?
> 
> I run x86 on my desktop, and have no problems.  I run amd64 on my
> laptop.  It has hardware incompatibilties galore (mostly from the
> video chip, ATI FireGL 5250).  I've got an alternate x86 root on a USB
> drive, and it still has most of the compatibility issues.  The biggest
> difference is that Adobe's flash plugin works on x86.
> 
> So what are the rest of you running, and why?

I'm using x86_64 on my desktop computer and it works fine. Except for
flash plugin, which doesn't work in 32bits. For this you can use
nspluginwrapper which lets you use 32bits plugins with 64bits firefox :
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/
However it is not 100% stable yet, and sometimes it crash, so you can
also use a 32bits firefox which works fine.

Nicolas