[LAU] OT: 64 vs 32 bit?

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:10 PM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> Josh Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> Is there no flash plugin for mozilla?
>>>
>>> No. If you really need to access such webpages, install mozilla and
>>> flashplugin-nonfree in your 386 chroot and use the 32bit browser to
>>> access the sites.
>>>
>>> I watch a lot of YouTube, and I've been missing Flash on my 64 bit
>>> machine.  Thanks for suggesting the 32 bit chroot.
>>
>> And I think someone on the list recently mentioned that 64-bit Flash for
>> Linux is out now?
>
> It has been available for a long time, I've been using it for a year
> or more, it was just unavailable lately for a period of a few months.

i found the prior version(s) very unstable on my x86_64 fedora box. i
just installed the new version from adobe yesterday, and can't yet say
if its actually usable.