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Fedora Core 5 freezes on Dell Dimension E510



On Tuesday 15 August 2006 10:58 am, Matt Shields wrote:
> You're running servers, right?  Not running any desktop applications.  My
> personal hosted server is a dual core running CentOS 4.3 x86_64 and all
> the server applications are fine.
>
> My question was more about Desktop Linux and Dual Core and whether it's a
> waste of money.  For example, even if I get FC5 64bit to install and run
> X.  There is no Macromedia Flash support for 64bit linux.  And there are
> a lot of other applications.
I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.4 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060527 
SUSE/1.5.0.4-1.3 Firefox/1.5.0.4
A file on firefox-bin shows it is actually a 32-bit executable:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, 
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared 
libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped

And it includes Flash 7.0 r63.

of course, Adobe Flash is now up to 9.0 and many web sites now require flash 
8.0. 

The bottom line here is that Linux x86_64 can run 32-bit executables. 

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