From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESz8y-0007Yp-JI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:49:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9LFjltv000394; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:45:47 GMT Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk (rutherford.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9LFg7b5000531 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:42:07 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESz4c-0005Et-SC for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:44:51 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125641406260 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:44:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:46:23 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64 Message-ID: <20051021164623.77accce0@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1129899295.31014.3.camel@alain.oneredshoe.net> References: <43583153.2070603@comcast.net> <1129899295.31014.3.camel@alain.oneredshoe.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Fri__21_Oct_2005_16_46_23_+0100_o+m1X7wcyO+BZKmO; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: a891e092-6c24-4831-9a63-9f14a433c331 X-Archives-Hash: ed4bf40dd02970270247e71a2f4db99a --Signature_Fri__21_Oct_2005_16_46_23_+0100_o+m1X7wcyO+BZKmO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:54:55 -0400, Scott Tiret wrote: > I have been running an x86_64 (amd64) system for a few months now. The > only thing I have been missing is a 64bit version of Macromedia > Shockwave plugin. Apparently, there is no 64bit version for this > proprietary software. There's an ebuild on the forums to make the 32 bit nsplugins work with 64 bit Konqueror, but not for KDE 3.5 yet. > Everything else is fine. I have all I need on my desktop. x86_64 > version of Openoffice-bin (rc3) takes a long time to open, but is > promising. Turn off Java in OOo prefs, it makes a huge difference to start up times. --=20 Neil Bothwick Only an idiot actually READS taglines. --Signature_Fri__21_Oct_2005_16_46_23_+0100_o+m1X7wcyO+BZKmO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDWQ1Pum4al0N1GQMRAsOtAJ4vav4gbIbScfTA1sE8Pl7KszEpDwCghMZ/ yREABaT+RrS7lhnin3COTW8= =RnQV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Fri__21_Oct_2005_16_46_23_+0100_o+m1X7wcyO+BZKmO-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list