is the 64bit version of gutsy stable?

Brandon Johnson dbrandon.johnson at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 08:47:15 UTC 2007


I have never had a problem with 64 bit versions of Linux.  Flash didn't
work but that can be solved by installing a 32 bit version of Firefox.

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:48 +0800, SIE wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:11:49 +0200
> Janne Jokitalo <astraljava at kapsi.fi> wrote:
> 
> > Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> > > I am currently running 32bit version of feisty on my 64bit enabled
> > > xeon proc server.  I really want to try installing the 64bit
> > > version of gutsy on it, but i am worried it might not be as stable
> > > as the 32 bit version.
> > > 
> > > Is the 64bit version as stable as the 32bit version?
> > 
> > Very much so. Haven't noticed much crackling on the 32-bit version
> > either, but am tempted to say that it's even more stable than that.
> > 
> > > are there programs that won't run on the 64bit version?
> > 
> > Not that I've come up with anything. Looks like they've come up with
> > proper wrappers that allow 32-bit flash to work on this as well,
> 
> I am not familiar to the Gusty 64-bit,Howerver  in 6.10 the flash
> doesn't work in my 64-bit system,and even I can't find the way to
> insatll a flash plug-in.Does the flash works in Gusty 64-bit?
> 
> 
> > which in mind was one of the last issues for 64-bit. Java works
> > flawlessly, so far at least. Absolutely no problems that I've
> > encountered.
> > 
> > 
> 
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Brandon Johnson <dbrandon.johnson at gmail.com>





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