Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Benji Weber wrote:

> On 19/09/2007, Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I think such cases have to be clear for everybody: if you need Java and
> > > you really can't live without it, go for 32bit. Yast/whatever tool and
> > > the Documentation should offer an easy way for this. And then it should
> > > clearly be noted that many other things might get broken. For those
> > > users, a pure 32bit system might be better suitable then (or maybe a VM)
> 
> Java works fine with 64bit konqueror btw. Konqueror doesn't require
> the sun plugin.

Well this does not run all applets. Some applets only produce a "applet 
failed" error, while others work.
 
> The other problem with installing 32bit firefox for java is that it
> also requires 32bit java. Java applets may be used less frequently now
> but there are many java applications, and many people do java
> development.

-- 
Andreas Vetter
Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie
Universitaet Wuerzburg              
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