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. -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!!