[ale] Any suggestions for cost effective computing.

[Jeff Hubbs]

Under Gentoo, if you use the binary-only mozilla-firefox-bin package
instead of the source-only mozilla-firefox package on AMD64, I think you
get the Flash plugin as part of the package.  That used to not be so and
was a major irritant with desktop Gentoo on AMD64.

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Get the 64-bit system and use 32 bit OS. 
>
> Or use the 64-bit OS but get the 32-bit Firefox. It works just fine.
>
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:29 -0400, Byron A Jeff wrote:
>   
>> I'm in the process of setting up a machine for my mother-in-law. Normally
>> I'd wait for a Fry's special and buy. But I was hunting around Pricewatch.com
>> and noticed that several vendors sell MB/CPU/memory combos in the $100-$125
>> ballpark.
>>
>> One problem when I last upgraded was purchasing a AMD64 3000+ on a MB. Works
>> fine. But because of the 64 bit processor, I find I can't get any flash
>> functionality at all under my AMD64 upgraded Debian Sarge.
>>
>> So I'm trying to find a cost effective balance. Something that's 32 bit, so
>> flash will work (and Adobe has no plans for Flash 64 on anything other than
>> 32 bit Linux for now), but will function OK for the next couple of years.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> BAJ
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