On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 13:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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 It's not a myth, but it's now (only quite recently) mostly outdated. > > True. > > > Those were the major issues. OO.o and Java are fixed and Flash is mostly > > fixed, but wine is still valid. > > Java is still a huge mess; there are any number of webapps that just > plain don't work in 64-bit. (I'm not sure this is Java's fault per se, > but the fact remains that things don't work and the authors seem content > to tell you to install a 32-bit browser instead of fixing their broken > code...) Hmm, that's nasty. I hadn't personally run across any of those yet, which is I guess why I didn't know about it. Thanks for the info. -- 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
