On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> All I can say is that while 64-bit >>> Linux works, and works well, there are a lot of real world limitations >>> in terms of accessing media from the web. While no where near as bad >>> as they used to be you will likely run into issues with Java and Flash >>> under 64-bit, and the decoders for things like Windows media file >>> types are almost always a bit more difficult than on our 32-bit >>> machines >> >> Adobe has just released a 64bit beta of flash 10 for linux: >> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > > Actually I've found 64 bit Ubuntu 8.10 with 32 bit Flash 10 plugin via > nspluginwrapper to be the best Linux Flash setup. If Flash crashes, > rather than taking out the whole browser as a native plugin (32 or 64 > bit) would, only the crashing instance dies. With this setup on 8.04, > all Flash applets would die if one crashed. > > It's still not great, as Flash regularly pegs one core at 100% CPU > requiring the offending npviewer.bin process to be killed, but at > least the browser survives. > > Lee Lee, Do you really feel that the Flash/nspluginwrapper setup you describe above, which is pretty much equivalent to what I'm running on Gentoo, is *better* than the same version of Flash running on a 32-bit platform with the same browser/kernel/desktop? The key here, in my mind, is basically an argument for KISS. If 64-bit isn't demonstratabely better then why should Dave run it? (Other than he just want's to which is a fine reason!) This argument has to also be extended to all the other software that makes the user experience go - Java, Java within browsers, Wine, VST's, etc. I'm not saying 64-bit doesn't work. I'm typing this message on a 64-bit machine and this specific box has never run anything except 64-bit Gentoo so I know it works. I simply feel that it doesn't work *better*. At BEST it's equivalent, and in my experience it's always somewhat behind for a desktop/DAW type machine. Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
