2009/5/11 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 It's not a myth, but it's now (only quite recently) mostly outdated.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. wine is a bad example for this. you need a 32bit wine for running 32bit windows applications. all you need to do on x86_64 though is yum install wine ;). no need to use a 32bit base os. In a few months 64 bit wine will get more traction to be able to run windows 64bit applications though. > > 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 > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
