On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: >> On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:26:36 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Actually I never understood why people would want to install i386 when >>> amd64 is possible. Since from amd64 you can still run x86 code ... but >>> not the other way around. Is there a drawback when installing an amd64 >>> kernel ? >> Ha! :-) >> >> There are no Thunderbird binaries for the released version packaged for >> 64 bits OSes and some people (e.g., me) do not like messing/bloating >> their systems with 32-bits compat libraries. >> >> And Thunderbird is the first package it came up to my mind without >> struggling my brain, there still has to be many others... >> >> Greetings, >> > Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit player, > I've found that the 32bit one plays without any hiccups that the 64bit > one seems to have (No need to have flash is evil debates here. Some of > us wants to watch youtube and other flash sites).
The 64-bits version is still labeled as "beta" but to be sincere, almost all of the Adobe software could be tagged that way. This can sound a bit rude but heck, with all the people and resources they have their software should be 99.999999∞% "bug-free" >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.24.15.58...@gmail.com