Ron Johnson a écrit : > On 01/04/09 16:07, thveillon.debian wrote: > [snip] >> Hi, >> Just to push in the same direction, I have 2 C2duo, both running amd64 >> Debian, one with a custom kernel compiled with the "c2duo - newer-xeon" >> arch instead of the generic "x86-64" which is the defaut. (can't tell >> the difference though...) >> >> FlashPlayer is already available for native amd64 (not talking about the >> nspluginwrapper thing) in debian-multimedia (experimental only for now, >> but working better already than the aforementioned solution). Free >> alternatives are available too (swfdec, gnash...) for amd64. >> For java the icedtea jre and plug-in is working ok for me, and Sun >> announced a linux native x86-64 build of their browser plug-in for the >> next update (available as a beta already). >> >> AMD64 is no longer limited for a desktop user, if ia32 is absolutely >> required there's always a way round the problem, like static packages >> (Skype...), chroot, ia32libs or even a virtual machine. > > acroread still has some features that the FLOSS alternatives don't, and > w32codecs is still most simply available in 32 bit mode. > > But I do agree that the barriers are dropping. > Never had problem with w64codecs (debian-multimedia), but yes I forgot about acroread plug-in which still requires nspluginwrapper (should be working OK though, not too intensive), but i don't use it and never came across a pdf I couldn't read with (Kpdf|Xpdf|Evince|Okular). Of course I don't say it doesn't exist, my use of pdf's is quite limited...
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