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hello,
i was wondering whether it would be better to go with a 64bit arch linux distribution for a macbook-pro (3rd gen, santa-rosa chipset, 4gb ram) or a a 32bit archlinux ? since i have just started using arch (~2 days), i am not sure if 64bit would be "at-par" with 32bit archlinux with respect to number of available applications, user support etc. i am not a linux newbie btw.
thanks for your suggestions / hints etc.
anupam
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Hi Anupam and welcome to Arch Linux! The 32-bit and 64-bit package repositories differ as per the following page...
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Hi Anupam and welcome to Arch Linux! The 32-bit and 64-bit package repositories differ as per the following page...
thanks for the info. mighty useful. it seems 32bit might be the way to go ?
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I use arch64 for my desktop. I have 2 problems with it - gnash is still very ineffective for rendering flash; and virtualbox-ose is only available for 32-bit. Otherwise, I love my arch64 setup. 64-bit linux is actually 64-bit, no 32-bit emulation like vista64. and no 4gb cap on RAM.
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I use arch64 for my desktop. I have 2 problems with it - gnash is still very ineffective for rendering flash; and virtualbox-ose is only available for 32-bit. Otherwise, I love my arch64 setup. 64-bit linux is actually 64-bit, no 32-bit emulation like vista64. and no 4gb cap on RAM.
Hi Tony,
Regarding Flash, I find either swfdec-mozilla to be more effective, or you can use nspluginwrapper
for swfdec-mozilla
pacman -Sy swfdec-mozillaor for Adobe Flash, read:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64
uninstall gnash first before installing one of the above..
Regarding the Macbook, is it simple to install Archlinux on it? I'm seroiusly considering getting one maybe later this year.
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