[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

[Diarmuid Bourke]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 13:54, Shane Tuohy <stuohy1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know it's anecdotal evidence, but whatever. I've been on 64 bit since '08,
> when I got a laptop capable of it. It was a bit of a pain at the start,
> especially with Flash, but to be honest, there haven't been many problems.

Adobe released Flash 64bit for all platforms today.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
It's in the arch aur as flashplugin-prerelease and it works well.

> This has been my experience using 64 bit Ubuntu, Arch and Crunchbang. You
> don't notice much of a difference really, as far as I can remember.
>
> Shane
>
> On 16 September 2010 13:30, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> wrote:
>
>> It's a while since I bought a new desktop. Last time round I decided
>> against 64-bit on the grounds it was a bit too new, but should I go for
>> it now?
>>
>> Main uses: general desktop, stats crunching, light web serving, Debian
>> unstable.
>>
>> Brendan
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