Ever tried automatix?
http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software_and_Tweaks#Multimedia_Codecs
see the line:
Flash Player (Adobe Flash Player plugin for Firefox) *(Under Swiftfox
Plugins option in AMD64)
*Seems like there is some support for flash on adm64, whether that
translates to firefox i don't know.
On 6/30/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
kelsey hudson wrote:
>
> Either way, I chalk it up to stupidity. There isn't a valid reason for
> it, except, "waaaah, I didn't write portable code!" Never assume i386 is
> going to be the only thing your code will run on. i386 could disappear
> tomorrow and your code needs to be able to handle it.
>
> I don't know, maybe I just have no tolerance for stupidity anymore.
It's not stupidity, it's the market. What is the market for desktop
Linux? Maybe 5% of PC's? And out of that, how many are 64-bit? I can't
even guess, but I'm a power user and I'm still on 32-bit. My laptop is
about 3 years old with a 32-bit processor. Even brand new laptops are
mostly 32-bit (Intel Core Duo is NOT 64 bit {note the missing two}, nor
is Celeron or Pentium Centino. AMD doesn't have much of the market
there). My desktop is also 32-bit and seeing as it runs fine the way it
is I probably won't upgrade until it either breaks or I have an
overwhelming need for speed, which will be in about a year.
So why should anyone develop software for a market that is small and
will stay small? I think we are lucky Adobe did anything for Linux. And
the people making the software are not stupid. See the blog at
<http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/> to see what they have to deal with
to get stuff work on Linux.
Gus
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