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by **Roman** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 18:46

The problematic Flash / video situation on 64 (not Sabayon's fault, I know)
is one of the main reasons I'm planning on going back to 32, even though I have a
64bit system. Just too much of a hassle...

Is the 32bit version much slower than 64, or would I be hard pushed to notice a difference?
Haven't installed the new release yet.

Roman

by **wolfden** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 18:51

you shouldn't notice it. Some may debate it.

I ran the 32 bit of RC 1 and it ran just fine. I may head the same direction cause of the multimedia stuff, but I'm still workin on it.

by **vagabondo** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:15

I am brand new to SabayonLinux, but on SuSE you can use 32bit Firefox on a 64bit install. Can't you do the same? It doesn't bother me as I block Flash anyway as a waste of time/space.

by **cvill64** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:27

Yes, please use firefox-bin to have all the flash and such capabilities

That is the 32bit firefox build on 64

by **cvill64** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:30

Roman wrote:The problematic Flash / video situation on 64 (not Sabayon's fault, I know)
is one of the main reasons I'm planning on going back to 32, even though I have a
64bit system. Just too much of a hassle...

Is the 32bit version much slower than 64, or would I be hard pushed to notice a difference?
Haven't installed the new release yet.

Roman

For normal day to day activities you won't notice a difference. Since I run biochemical/bioinformatic number crunching, I notice a huge difference then, and if the system is fully optimized, I do notice a difference, not sure if its just due to so many installs of different distros, etc.

by **wolfden** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:57

is there away to reinstall firefox-bin, mine crashes constantly

by **vagabondo** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:29

wolfden wrote:is there away to reinstall firefox-bin, mine crashes constantly

I'm guessing, but

# emerge --unmerge firefox
# emerge www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

note that the present version from Mozilla is 1.5.0.6
Gentoo is at v1.5.0.5 so you might prefer to get the i686 version from
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

by **wolfden** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:06

I dunno but as soon as firefox hits any media video it crashes

by **Varean** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:19

If you are using an AMD64, then with IA32 emulation enabled, emerging and compiling 32bit apps is perfectly ok, no need for binaries.

by **Roman** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 14:24

Have 32bit version of SL installed now.
Have to say the speed difference is hardly noticeable with regular desktop use.
Prolly a lot different thought, if you do a lot of number crunching...

Roman

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