[Mageia-dev] Providing 32-bit flash-player-plugin in x86_64 nonfree?

Sun Jun 5 13:07:17 CEST 2011

Op zondag 05 juni 2011 12:54:52 schreef Kira:
+> 在 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:51:05 +0800, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>寫道:>
+> 
+> > Sorry, I just rechecked my flash and it is the 32bit version. My fault.
+> > But the bottom line is that it works for now.
+> > 
+> > As for the Adobe "Square" preview, I don't think the 64bit version will
+> > suffor for too long in preview release as most of the machines being
+> > sold today are 64bit. I don't think that Adobe will sit on the sucess of
+> > their 32bit product and ignore the 64bit version.
+> > 
+> > For now the 32bit version works on Firefox 64bit and eventually the
+> > 64bit version will be released in .rpm for us to install. We just have
+> > be patient.
+> 
+> A sad fact is that Adobe has been saying that they are going to release
+> 
+> 64-bit version for 2~3 years.....
+
+yes, that was what i was gonna mention too...
+
+it's been previewed, beta'd, released, then pulled back from release, etc...
+
+i think for some reason they don't use the same codebase for 32bit as for 
+64bit but a fork, which is a stupid idea, imho.
+
+alot of problems were there last time,... bad networking code, video slowness, 
+100%cpu usage... etc...
+
+yes, adobe has a very bad 64bit history
+