<div dir="ltr">No point in 64 bit unless you have more than 4 GB RAM. The PAE kernels will still work up to 32 GB RAM but they are much less efficient than a full 64-bit kernel.<br><br>The secret to firefox is to install the 32-bit version and then the addins work fine. Java, flash, are 32-bit plugins. mplayer is both 32 or 64 but use 32 for best compatibility.<br>
<br>You can tweak repos to use 32-bit and only certain packages then it's just yum update.<br><br>Be sure to remove the 64-bit firefox.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hscast@charter.net">hscast@charter.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thinking of going 64 bit. Is it pretty much ready for primetime? From<br>
what I've been able to see, it looks like Fedora has the 32 bit on a 64<br>
bit system issues pretty much resolved, but I keep seeing some issues in<br>
regards to plug-ins for FF & or T-Bird.<br>
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