<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>There is a 64-bit Java for Linux. Moved to it years ago when I was at <a href="http://Weather.com">Weather.com</a>. It's was available on the Sun site (now Oracle).</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>There's no 64 bit benefit except for scientific number crunching and systems with greater than 4 GB ram.<br>
Firefox works fine. It's stupid flash that's a bear. There's a 64 bit version but you have to dig for it. <br>
Official Java is not 64 bit for Linux but GnuJava is and seems to suit all of my needs.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 31, 2011 7:37 AM, "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> All,<br>> <br>> I've finally got a machine at home that has a 64-bit processor, and<br>
> was wondering about the cost/benefit ration of running Fedora 14 at<br>> 64-bit.<br>> What are the pros/cons of this? I'm only aware of certain issues with<br>> specific programs (Firefox, frrex) having different bugs in the 64-bit<br>
> version than the 32-bit.<br>> <br>> TIA,<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Pete Hardie<br>> --------<br>> Better Living Through Bitmaps<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ale mailing list<br>
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