[FC6] i386 or x86_64?

ronald rwarsow at online.de
Mon Oct 16 12:08:57 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:03 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 02:31 -0500, M.Lewis wrote:
...

> Performance:
> At least on AMD Athlon64/Opteorn based machines x86_64 -is- fast. By how

yep.

> Software:
> Everything 32bit runs in 64bit.
> -However-, if you install a 64bit browser, you'll lose flash.
> If you install a 64bit mplayer/xine, you'll lose the ability to use
> 32bit Windows codecs.

just checked.
this is *not* the case.
wmv files 'playing well with xine on x86_64 with the codecs from the
mplayer site. afaik 32bit codecs !

...

-- 
   ronald




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