Linux on an AMD64 box...

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:25:12AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:56:59AM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> explained dual booting and virtualization as a couple of choices, and
>> she's decided that she wants to dual boot.  
>
>Most people I know eventually find dual booting a pain because you have
>to stop everything you are doing and switch.  You often end up only

I know this, and I explained it to my wife, but doesn't think it'll be a
big deal.  We might know better, but nothing teaches like experience.  I
can install VMWare later, if she decides that that is what she needs.

>> heard a few things, like Firefox having to run in 32-bit mode (or is
>> that just Flash?  I don't remember) but I don't know how you'd set
>> something like this up.
>
>Just flash, and any other non-free plugins that only come in 32bit.
>There are people working on getting 32bit plugins to work in 64bit
>browsers but I am not sure if they are done yet.

So, is Flash on a 64bit machine possible?  If so, how?

>> I plan to use Debian, because that's what I use and I know it best, and
>
>Well if you go with Etch, amd64 works rather well.  For Sarge it was
>unofficial, and it does have some things lacking.

I had planned to use testing, yes.  Stable is, um, stable, but it lacks
too many programs and updated features.
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yours,

William

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