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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 22:05 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>Karl S. Katzke wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>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
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>>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.
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>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).
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>Tell them to get over it is another option :)
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>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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 From the SuSE list, I don't think there are any performance issues. 
There *can* be problems getting all libraries correctly located (32-bit 
vs. 64-bit) ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III
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