On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 18:28 +0200, drago01 wrote: > The only reason people prefer to run i686 even on x86_64 is because > "apps do not work", which is nothing but a myth. It's not a myth, but it's now (only quite recently) mostly outdated. wine has never had a decent x86-64 port, and still doesn't. openoffice.org's x86-64 version was unusable for a long time. Running Flash on x86-64 was a big pain for a long time (even with nspluginwrapper) until Adobe finally released a native x86-64 plugin (which is still technically an alpha, and really doesn't work as well as the x86-32 plugin in some ways). Java was equally painful until OpenJDK came along, as Sun consistently refused to release a native x86-64 Java plugin. Those were the major issues. OO.o and Java are fixed and Flash is mostly fixed, but wine is still valid. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
