Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits (Thanks)

2008-12-09 Thread pat
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0100, pat wrote Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. The applications are: -

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits (Thanks)

2008-12-09 Thread TimeBreach
pat a écrit : On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0100, pat wrote Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. The applications are:

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits (Thanks)

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Martin
firefox 64bit is unstable for me, and I also think I have a problem w/thunderbird / enigmail. Other than that I'm happily running 2 64bit machines On 12/9/08, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0100, pat wrote Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Holmes
2008/12/8 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: win32codecs will not work unless it's used by a 32-bit exe (You can run 32-bit apps on x64). By exe I assume you actually mean native binary. And yes, this is correct, but I'm pretty sure there is a win64codecs ebuild too, if I rembember correctly.

[gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread pat
Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. The applications are: - Seamoneky/Firefox - Java - Flash - Audacious - mplayer -

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:59 AM, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. The applications are: -

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Dezember 2008, pat wrote: Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. The applications are: - Seamoneky/Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread damian
Hello, I have a couple of problems only with proprietary software: real movie videos and flash. The applications are: - Flash Sometimed the nspluginviewer eats the 100% of the CPU. Most of the time it works great, but it's quite annoying. - mplayer I cannot see real movie videos. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 14:59 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. The applications are: -

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:59 AM, damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a couple of problems only with proprietary software: real movie videos and flash. The applications are: - Flash Sometimed the nspluginviewer eats the 100% of the CPU. Most of the time it works great, but it's

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 December 2008 13:59:00 pat wrote: I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. I too have a laptop with that processor (it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread damian
They recently released a 64-bit version of Flash plugin for Linux. I unmerged the nspluginwrapper and unmasked the latest flash plugin and it's working beautifully since. It hasn't crashed/frozen once. Thanks for the tip! By 'flash plugin' you do you mean this package

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:50 AM, damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They recently released a 64-bit version of Flash plugin for Linux. I unmerged the nspluginwrapper and unmasked the latest flash plugin and it's working beautifully since. It hasn't crashed/frozen once. Thanks for the tip! By

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Markos Chandras
On Monday 08 December 2008 17:09:04 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 14:59 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I