On 02/10/2013 01:21 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: > I run both CentOS and Fedora but at this point I don't run any 32-bit > apps because they are no longer needed. > > The former reason use to be to run 32-bit browser for 32 bit plugins but > flash is now available 64 bit and Java - I believe there is a 64-bit > Java plugin from Oracle but there are so many bad security issues with > Oracle Java I no longer allow it on my system.
Generally, those security issues apply to OpenJDK as well, though the ITW plugin is moving to sandbox all unsigned I think. > > Anyway, even though I can run 32-bit apps on Fedora / CentOS there is no > need to, not for me anyway. > > Maybe some commercial 3rd party apps are 32-bit only. I suspect that is > getting to be rare. Two very big examples are the Android SDK and 32bit guest support in VirtualBox (both of which I use). I believe Wine is another, but I haven't messed with it in a while. -- DJ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
