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</font></b>At 10:40 AM 8/14/2006 -0400, you wrote:<br>
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:25:12AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:<br>
>>On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:56:59AM -0400, William O'Higgins
Witteman wrote:<br>
>>> explained dual booting and virtualization as a couple of
choices, and<br>
>>> she's decided that she wants to dual boot. <br>
>><br>
>>Most people I know eventually find dual booting a pain because
you have<br>
>>to stop everything you are doing and switch. You often end
up only<br>
><br>
>I know this, and I explained it to my wife, but doesn't think it'll
be a<br>
>big deal. We might know better, but nothing teaches like
experience. I<br>
>can install VMWare later, if she decides that that is what she
needs.<br>
><br>
>>> heard a few things, like Firefox having to run in 32-bit
mode (or is<br>
>>> that just Flash? I don't remember) but I don't know
how you'd set<br>
>>> something like this up.<br>
>><br>
>>Just flash, and any other non-free plugins that only come in
32bit.<br>
>>There are people working on getting 32bit plugins to work in
64bit<br>
>>browsers but I am not sure if they are done yet.<br>
><br>
>So, is Flash on a 64bit machine possible? If so, how?<br>
><br>
>>> I plan to use Debian, because that's what I use and I know
it best, and<br>
>><br>
>>Well if you go with Etch, amd64 works rather well. For
Sarge it was<br>
>>unofficial, and it does have some things lacking.<br>
><br>
>I had planned to use testing, yes. Stable is, um, stable, but
it lacks<br>
>too many programs and updated features.<br>
>-- <br>
><br>
>yours,<br>
><br>
>William<br>
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