Where are we up to with 64 Bit flavour Linux?

[D_S_81]

I used Ubuntu and Fedora Core a while back on my old AMD 64 rig (this was when the AMD 64s were new) and there were a few issues with certain apps like Flash etc. (other than that, though, it was smooth as the proverbial).

My lovely iBook, despite it's resilience to almost everything i could throw at it, is dying (it takes three attempts for it to boot, for example) and i am looking at a cheap and nasty AMD 64 powered Acer Laptop (stop sniggering) and i was wondering if 64 bit linux distros like Ubuntu were flying high now, as my colleague was suggesting something to the contrary.

Cheers

dan.

 

[Rebelius]

my experience is fairly limited, but I dual boot with Gentoo which I set up to be fully 64bit - nothing 32bit on there at all - and it runs perfectly fine with everything I've thrown at it except flash.

 

[Mikesoft]

Im a Mepis user and that distro seems to be compatible with most things to a certain degree. There is also a 64bit version out now I think.

 

[fumbles]

my experience is fairly limited, but I dual boot with Gentoo which I set up to be fully 64bit - nothing 32bit on there at all - and it runs perfectly fine with everything I've thrown at it except flash.

Ditto, except Gentoo => Arch Linux... Personally I use Gnash, it sucks but better then nothing.

TBH it's still not worth it, same as Vista64.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The only limitation is really the lack of Macromedia Flash. The solution to this is simple; install the 32-bit version of Firefox and use the 32-bit Flash plugin.

 

[cb_linus]

For Gentoo:

emerge nspluginwrapper

for flash in 64bit firefox (you need 32bit installed aswell, sort've defeats the object in a sense). Works great for me, though in bringing in 32bit firefox you're gonna probably bring in a load of other 32bit stuff too.

 

[fumbles]

The only limitation is really the lack of Macromedia Flash. The solution to this is simple; install the 32-bit version of Firefox and use the 32-bit Flash plugin.

Java Web-something-or-rather apparently doesn't work either. Sun recommend installing both 32 and 64 version for that.

Gnash works on 64bit Linux, supports up to Flash 7 IIRC.