the "proper" way to identify the bitness of your kernel and CPU

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 01:55 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> This snippet might be of interest:
>> grep lm /proc/cpuinfo >/dev/null && [ `uname -m` != x86_64 ] && echo 'Your
>> CPU is 64-bit-capable, you are running a 32-bit OS, why???'
>>
>>         Kevin Kofler
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> That would be a good addition !!! However I have some 64-bit machines I
> wish had had the 32 bit os on because there are still a some things that
> I have not been able to work with adobe flash on 64 but work easily on
> 32.

Adobe has made a BETA version of their flash player available (last 
September).  It is not packaged in an RPM, but only consists of one .so 
file that needs to be put in your /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins dir.  It 
works just fine (as compared to using the 32 bit plugin with a 32_64 bit 
wrapper):

		libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

> Greg

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