Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

> Well, you get 64 bit Vista with Lenovo Laptops. And yes, you can't get a 
> Cisco VPN client.

Yes. And that's a choice. You can always downgrade, if you need to. We
have a better solution, aka downgrading one application. 

> > > Dunno why they must insist on running 64-bit openSUSE, when running 
> > > 32-bit MS 
> > > Windows doesn't seem to bother them any.
> >
> > That's completely different. Windows on 64 bit has issues with office
> > too, while Linux is known to work better on those systems. Moreover many
> > 64 bit users have workstations (not all of them are home users), and
> > they still need java, flash and such because their workstation is also
> > their PC.
>
> That's the situation for most users here. They need 64 bit for their self 
> written programs, but need a fully working browser on the exactly same 
> machine.

There's a workaround for that. Use the plugin with 32 bit firefox and a
32 bit java, AND develop on another version of java at 64 bit.
For example, to have the plugin properly working you can use java 1.5
and develop with 1.6. I do that myself because of Eclipse requirements.

The point is that the box should work out of the box, and these
solutions can be provided with a clever selection of the default
installation system.

Regards,
Alberto

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