[Pc_Support] Now 64-bit ... no real issues except Firefox x86-64 (replaced with Firefox i386)

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:52:54 -0700, "Bryan J. Smith"
<b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> I'm now running Linux/x86-64 (Fedora Core 3).

Cool!
  
> Anyhoo, sure enough, _no_ plug-ins would work in Firefox x86-64.
> 
> So I uninstalled it, temporarily tapped the i386 YUM repository, and
> got Firefox i386 (as well as Mozplugger i386).
> 
> Now just about _all_ plug-ins work, including:  
> - HelixPlayer (copy .so/.xpt).
> - Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 (copy nppdf.so)
> - FlashPlayer (symlink .so)
> - Java 1.5 (symlink .so)
> 
> Outside of the Firefox issue, Fedora Core 3 seems to ship with the
> small subset of i386 libraries that are able to run a majority of
> programs -- even games like Doom3.  I'm installing the UT2004
> Linux/x86-64 version from the "Editor's Choice Edition" as we speak.

I run the Pure64 version of Debian, and the way I get around the 64vs32
binary problem is to use a 32bit chroot environment.  It works great.  

Regards,
Ozz.