Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/04/09 16:07, thveillon.debian wrote:
[snip]
> Hi,
> Just to push in the same direction, I have 2 C2duo, both running amd64
> Debian, one with a custom kernel compiled with the "c2duo - newer-xeon"
> arch instead of the generic "x86-64" which is the defaut. (can't tell
> the difference though...)
>
> FlashPlayer is already available for native amd64 (not talking about the
> nspluginwrapper thing) in debian-multimedia (experimental only for now,
> but working better already than the aforementioned solution). Free
> alternatives are available too (swfdec, gnash...) for amd64.
> For java the icedtea jre and plug-in is working ok for me, and Sun
> announced a linux native x86-64 build of their browser plug-in for the
> next update (available as a beta already).
>
> AMD64 is no longer limited for a desktop user, if ia32 is absolutely
> required there's always a way round the problem, like static packages
> (Skype...), chroot, ia32libs or even a virtual machine.

acroread still has some features that the FLOSS alternatives don't, 
and w32codecs is still most simply available in 32 bit mode.

But I do agree that the barriers are dropping.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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