Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:35:46PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Are there still significant end-user problems for 64-bit Debian? The > machine has nvidia graphics on the motherboard (I believe). My user is > likely to want to use flash, which has always been a problem in Linux, > but ... Is it

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:55:34PM -0600 Jaime Ochoa Malagón said: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Yet again the 32 vs 64 bit question. > > > > I have Debian systems at home running 32 bits, and my server has been > > running happily in 64-bit mode fopr years. Now I g

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
I think you could use it for an end user... Really few problems right now just try... On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Yet again the 32 vs 64 bit question. > > I have Debian systems at home running 32 bits, and my server has been > running happily in 64-bit mode fopr years.

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 11:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:53:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Been using 64-bit Sid for about 2 years. 64-bit Iceweasel 3.5.17 (in Sid) works great with Flash 10.2r152, but v4.0 (b12 thru rc2 from Experimental, confirmed w/ Mozilla FF) has some "incon

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:53:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Been using 64-bit Sid for about 2 years. > > 64-bit Iceweasel 3.5.17 (in Sid) works great with Flash 10.2r152, but > v4.0 (b12 thru rc2 from Experimental, confirmed w/ Mozilla FF) has some > "inconsistencies" with Flash. The 32 bit

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Yet again the 32 vs 64 bit question. I have Debian systems at home running 32 bits, and my server has been running happily in 64-bit mode fopr years. Now I get to install debian for an end-user on another AMD-64 machine. 64-bit mode is tempting, but:

Re: touchscreen issue

2011-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:37:02 +0100, dagecko wrote: > Hello, > > I don't really know where to ask for it. So I start on this list. > > The touchpad of my laptop works well, but I can't make the "click on the > touchpad works", meaning I must use the touchpad buttons to click, > double-click and s

32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
Yet again the 32 vs 64 bit question. I have Debian systems at home running 32 bits, and my server has been running happily in 64-bit mode fopr years. Now I get to install debian for an end-user on another AMD-64 machine. 64-bit mode is tempting, but: Are there still significant end-user probl