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Am Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:59:43 -0500 |
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schrieb "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org>: |
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> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:41:41PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote |
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> > Hah, I wonder if that's because the script was written before the x86 |
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> > and x86_64 architectures were merged in the kernel :) . I remember |
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> > Heise reporting on that a few years back. |
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> Probably correct. The machine is approx 4 years old. It's also a |
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> 32-bit kernel, because back then... |
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> 1) Flash didn't work on 64-bit kernels without jumping through flaming hoops |
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This never bothered me *that* much. You needed, what, nspluginwrapper? I don't |
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remember much what my experience was like, I think it was merely annoying, but |
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it's been years. |
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Looking at my merge history, I used it from March 2007 (my first Gentoo/Sabayon |
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install) till December 2008. Then I see I had it installed again from June to |
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September 2010. |
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So first of all, it looks like I was using the netscape-flash alpha releases |
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that had 64 bit support (in tree since November 2008), and genlop verifies this. |
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What happened in 2010: Adobe didn't manage to deliver a 64 bit version of Flash |
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10.1. I see the merge and unmerge dates of nspluginwrapper coincide with |
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upgrading to adobe-flash 10.1 and then to 10.2, respectively. |
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But hey, it looks like Flash is going the way of the Dodo, so hooray! |
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> 2) Wine required either multilib support or straight 32-bit linux |
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My box is around 6 years old now (bought at the beginning of my studies with |
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my earnings from (semi-)compulsory military service). I still went with Gentoo |
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amd64, even though 64bit support was still... incomplete. I don't regret it, |
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either. Gentoos emul-linux-* packages tended to be complete enough for my |
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needs, and I could even work with my student edition of Matlab. |
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Of course, everybody has their own requirements to consider, and mine didn't |
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dictate a 32 bit OS. |
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> On a new machine today, I'd probably install 64-bits, unless there was |
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> some weird requirement for 32-bits. I don't push my machines that hard, |
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> and they generally last. I've mostly bought Dell desktops (including |
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> this one). The exception was was because Dell wasn't offering a machine |
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> with 8 gigs of RAM when I wanted it. The fact that the local guy also |
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> had a motherboard with a PS/2 keyboard connector was another plus. I |
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> have a couple of of IBM "clickety-clack" 104-keyboard specials that were |
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> being thrown out by my former employer a few years ago. I love them. |
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> I've bought a couple of ASUS notebooks as well. |
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Hell, my workplace installs 64 bit systems by default (and has been for a while |
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now). If that's not a sign... well, OK, it's a research institution, but |
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still ;) . |
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I only ever owned this one computer of mine, I could never afford a replacement |
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or a laptop (argh!), only upgrades every now and then, like recently buying |
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2x2GB RAM to replace my previous 4x512MB - and it's DDR2, so 3 times as |
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expensive as the same amount of DDR3 :( (well, in the store, at least: about 60 |
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€ vs. 20 €). I won't be buying more RAM without replacing my mainboard and CPU, |
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even though my current mainboard supports up to 8GB, but this upgrade was |
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definitely worth it. |
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-- |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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