[LAU] new laptop redux

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Peder Hedlund <peder at musikhuset.org> wrote:
> Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>:
>
> All I can say is that while 64-bit
>> Linux works, and works well, there are a lot of real world limitations
>> in terms of accessing media from the web. While no where near as bad
>> as they used to be you will likely run into issues with Java and Flash
>> under 64-bit, and the decoders for things like Windows media file
>> types are almost always a bit more difficult than on our 32-bit
>> machines
>
> Adobe has just released a 64bit beta of flash 10 for linux:
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Actually I've found 64 bit Ubuntu 8.10 with 32 bit Flash 10 plugin via
nspluginwrapper to be the best Linux Flash setup.  If Flash crashes,
rather than taking out the whole browser as a native plugin (32 or 64
bit) would, only the crashing instance dies.  With this setup on 8.04,
all Flash applets would die if one crashed.

It's still not great, as Flash regularly pegs one core at 100% CPU
requiring the offending npviewer.bin process to be killed, but at
least the browser survives.

Lee