Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:49:20
Message-Id: 20051021164623.77accce0@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64 by Scott Tiret
1 On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:54:55 -0400, Scott Tiret wrote:
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3 > I have been running an x86_64 (amd64) system for a few months now. The
4 > only thing I have been missing is a 64bit version of Macromedia
5 > Shockwave plugin. Apparently, there is no 64bit version for this
6 > proprietary software.
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8 There's an ebuild on the forums to make the 32 bit nsplugins work with 64
9 bit Konqueror, but not for KDE 3.5 yet.
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11 > Everything else is fine. I have all I need on my desktop. x86_64
12 > version of Openoffice-bin (rc3) takes a long time to open, but is
13 > promising.
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15 Turn off Java in OOo prefs, it makes a huge difference to start up times.
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19 Neil Bothwick
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21 Only an idiot actually READS taglines.