On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:39:52AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav writes: > > > > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run > > > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend > > > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run > > > correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. > > > > The only one I can think of (for a desktop) is the Flash plugin. > > The last time I looked - a couple of months ago - I believe > mplayer was also not yet there. > > > Robert Huff Just for the record: I've linux-flashplugin7 with native Firefox working almost flawlessly (at least for my uses). Same with mplayer - I'm using amd64 for about 2 years now, and all this time mplayer was my choice (working choice :)) for video/audio. Nvidia binary drivers are the only thing, which I'm missing - can't get my dual-head Nvidia card to work with Xinerama. YuriReceived on Wed Jun 06 2007 - 11:13:07 UTC
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