On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 14:59:47 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Russell Senior wrote: > > > My advice is, go 64-bit when you can. > > Russell, > > I certainly respect your opinions, so I will take your > advice when Pat releases the next Slackware. I'm sure there > will be some compatibility issues with firefox, flash-player > (gag!), and such, but those will probably be worked out. > > Most of my work with R is spatial statistics (although I > recently ran the Mann-Whitney U-test (a.k.a. Wilcoxon test) on > a small data set. Perhaps I'll need to double the RAM in the > laptop. > > Many thanks, > > Rich > Rich, For what it's worth, I've been running 64-bit Firefox _and_ 64-bit flash-player for some months now, and it seems to work fine. (Well, as fine as flash-player ever works, regardless of bittage. *Phthbthbthbthbt!*) Before I got a 64-bit version of flash that worked, I had to load a number of 32-bit libraries so that the 32-bit version would work. This was on a 64-bit version of Fedora with 64-bit Firefox. I have an Athlon dual-core system, with 2 Gig of RAM. The system _really_ needs another gig or two, as I wind up chewing up swap space after a while. Firefox is rather a memory hog. Of course, it doesn't help that I usually have two or three windows open simultaneously, with six or eight tabs each. :-) When yum does an update, it wants a lot of memory, too. --Dale -- Lothar: Runs pretty fast for a nerdy dude. Eastwood: I'm gonna say that when the interdimensional quantum physicist bolts for the exit, we should probably follow his lead. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
