21 Nov
2008
21 Nov
'08
10:41 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Peder Hedlund
<peder(a)musikhuset.org> wrote:
Lee,
Do you really feel that the Flash/nspluginwrapper setup you
describe above, which is pretty much equivalent to what I'm running on
Gentoo, is *better* than the same version of Flash running on a 32-bit
platform with the same browser/kernel/desktop?
The key here, in my mind, is basically an argument for KISS. If
64-bit isn't demonstratabely better then why should Dave run it?
(Other than he just want's to which is a fine reason!)
This argument has to also be extended to all the other software
that makes the user experience go - Java, Java within browsers, Wine,
VST's, etc.
I'm not saying 64-bit doesn't work. I'm typing this message on a
64-bit machine and this specific box has never run anything except
64-bit Gentoo so I know it works. I simply feel that it doesn't work
*better*. At BEST it's equivalent, and in my experience it's always
somewhat behind for a desktop/DAW type machine.
Thanks,
Mark
Quoting Mark Knecht
<markknecht(a)gmail.com>om>:
All I can say is that while 64-bit
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 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