64bit with 32bit clients

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Jordan Erickson wrote:

> Right now I'm using 8.04 i386. One of the only reasons I am, actually, 
> was that the AMD64 versions of Ubuntu wouldn't load correctly when I 
> first installed them on my HP ML370G5 servers (this was back in the Edgy 
> days). 

> Also, I was testing one after that and there were some strange printing
> issues from Firefox as well as some other non-mission-critical
> weirdnesses when using the i386 clients. I'm pretty sure those things
> have been ironed out since then, though. YMMV. Anyone else using AMD64
> w/i386 clients care to give their experiences?

One issue was proprietary apps like Adobe Flash which were compiled for a
32-bit Ubuntu system so wouldn't easily run in 64-bit Ubuntu.  Are there
now 64-bit versions available or is gnash now an option?

Gavin