kj:
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> What I'm worried about is the tools I use. In particular, I need a
> browser with all the usual suspects working properly: flash and java
> (unfortunately some of the tools I need to use at work are written in
> these abominable languages). Does anyone do heavy java and flash usage
> under 64bit Debian (I'm running Lenny)?
Not really. Flash works fine here (on a sid system using
nspluginwrapper) most of the time, but sometimes flash objects become
blank and I have to restart Iceweasel. I don't use Java at all (at least
not in the browser.
Otherwise, everything works really great. Debian on AMD64 is of the same
quality as on i386.
> Is this move viable or should I rather invest in a second box (won't
> come for free). I don't want to mess around with 32bit chroots - did
> that before and I didn't like it one bit.
What exactly was so bad? I played around with schroot (I don't have an
urgent need for chroots) and it looks really fine. If you write a few
tiny shell scripts to automate the most common tasks (launch browser
from chroot etc.), you can probably forget that you are forced to use a
chroot at all.
J.
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