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

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
> 
>   there appears to be a newer version than the above:
> 
> http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Actually, yes, there was a new release just made in February, see the 
following page:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

> rday

Thanks for pointing that out.

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