64 bit FC6 equal to FC32 in completeness

Bob Hartung rwhart at mchsi.com
Sun Jan 21 18:36:53 UTC 2007


jlwallen at monkeypantz.net wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  Bob Hartung <rwhart at mchsi.com>
> Subj:  64 bit FC6 equal to FC32 in completeness
> Date:  Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:23 pm
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> To:  Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>
> Hi all,
>   I am reinstalling FC6 on a new MB and CPU.  Since I now 
> can use the 64
> bit version I am wondering if the distro for the 64 bit 
> version of FC6
> is as complete as the 32 bit version?  Will probably use the 
> KDE desktop
> so that will need to be there also.
>
>   Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob
>
> I just went through this same issue. After fighting for a couple of days with multimedia in 64 bit fc6 I wound up installing 32 bit instead.
>
> No matter how hard I tried I could not get flash working nor could I get enlightenment installed.
>
> Kde worked great though.  So if you can deal with the multimedia headaches...64 bit fc6 is in good shape.
>
>   
jl
  Thanks.  I figured there would be issues.  Multimedia is not very 
important to me so I will probably give it a try.  As it is a new 
install I can then just reinstall the 32 bit version over the top 
without losing any work - that I all backed on tape.

Thanks,

Bob




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