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This only affects some distros

This only affects some distros

Posted Apr 6, 2008 3:15 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS) by midg3t
Parent article: Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers (TIS)

Red Hat and Fedora (and, AFAIK SUSE as well) support both 32-bit and 64-bit code on their 64-bit distributions, and provide nspluginwrapper to allow 32-bit plugins to run in a 64-bit Firefox.

It's harder to run 32-bit executables on x86-64 in a Debian-derived distro. On Fedora they just work.


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