Re: Multiarch LFS

On 02/10/2013 01:21 PM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> I run both CentOS and Fedora but at this point I don't run any 32-bit
> apps because they are no longer needed.
>
> The former reason use to be to run 32-bit browser for 32 bit plugins but
> flash is now available 64 bit and Java - I believe there is a 64-bit
> Java plugin from Oracle but there are so many bad security issues with
> Oracle Java I no longer allow it on my system.

Generally, those security issues apply to OpenJDK as well, though the 
ITW plugin is moving to sandbox all unsigned I think.

>
> Anyway, even though I can run 32-bit apps on Fedora / CentOS there is no
> need to, not for me anyway.
>
> Maybe some commercial 3rd party apps are 32-bit only. I suspect that is
> getting to be rare.

Two very big examples are the Android SDK and 32bit guest support in 
VirtualBox (both of which I use). I believe Wine is another, but I 
haven't messed with it in a while.

-- DJ

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