[CentOS] Firefox, Flash and Java on CentOS 4.1 x86-64

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 22:05 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Karl S. Katzke wrote:
> 
> > First of all, I just want to say *again* how happy I am with CentOS. 
> > Across our boxes and our clients boxes, we're running it on more than 
> > 20 machines at the moment and it's by far the most painless OS to 
> > administer in detail that I've ever used. (Of course, I'm an old Slak 
> > hat, but ...) Thanks so much to the community and the maintainers.
> >
> > We've recently run into a problem with a dual-opteron system that is 
> > running LTSP and serving up X and Firefox to a whole bunch of diskless 
> > clients. We're using the x86-64 build of CentOS, with the appropriate 
> > Firefox package. The client users have all been asking for Flash, 
> > since many websites are unusable without Flash these days ... but 
> > there's no 64-bit build of the Flash plugin. (Thanks, Macromedia! You 
> > suck!)
> >
> > What's the best way to provide Flash (and maybe Java?) with Firefox on 
> > this server box? How big will the performance hit be from running 
> > non-64 bit packages? Any specific tips & hints?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Karl Katzke
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> You could run the 32-bit Firefox & 32-bit plugins, they are *supposed* 
> to work seamlessly under the x86_64 OS. YMMV & all that. I have seen 
> much talk about this on the SuSE AMD64 list, and this recommendation has 
> floated out more than once.
> 
Right ... the only option would be to remove the x86_64 firefox and
install the i386 one ... but that might require MANY other i386
libraries. (I can't test it here).

Tell them to get over it is another option :)

Should not be a huge performance issue ... at least I haven't noticed
any earth shattering performance enhancements between the x86_64 and
i386 distros when installed on x86_64 machines (that one could feel via
the GUI screen).
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