After reading through the 64bit forum

Originally posted by 69_rs_ss@Jun 28 2005, 04:20 PM
The multimedia support crippling was the fact that by default, you were not allowed to play mp3's. There are updates in YOU that take care of this issue.

Now, I'm not sure what you mean about this. In every distro I have ever used, which is a lot, I have been able to view flash except on the 64 bit platform since Macromedia has yet to release a 64 bit version.

Are you going to check back in a year because of the flash issue or the multimedia "crippling" issue? As I see it, Suse fixed the multimedia issue and the flash issue will remain until either Linux is, as big or close to, Windows or Windows XP 64 comes out of Beta and people start to use it. That is when macromedia will finally decide to make a version of flash that is 64 bit.

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Well see no one is telling me this, I need the OS to be able to serve my everyday functions. Play mp3's ,view vids on the web and that sorta thing.

So let me get this str8, if i install and then do updates i will have the plugins placed into my browerses and all that sorta good stuff??

if the OS cant do that then its basically useless to me.

I just need soneone to tell me whats up, so far i havent gotten any really solid answers.

Originally posted by mejason69@Jun 28 2005, 11:17 PM
Well see no one is telling me this, I need the OS to be able to serve my everyday functions.* Play mp3's ,view vids on the web and that sorta thing.* *

So let me get this str8, if i install and then do updates i will have the plugins placed into my browerses and all that sorta good* stuff??

if the OS cant do that then its basically useless to me.

I just need soneone to tell me whats up, so far i havent gotten any really solid answers.

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The only problem I have had so far is with Azureus. I used the macromedia fix thats elsewhere on this forum and it worked with FF v1.0.4. For video playback I had to go and get the w32 codecs (32 bit but work fine) direct from packmans site as they didn't show up in Yast or APT but that was a minor inconvenience.
Apart from that it's all good,

Originally posted by mejason69@Jun 29 2005, 12:17 AM
Well see no one is telling me this, I need the OS to be able to serve my everyday functions.* Play mp3's ,view vids on the web and that sorta thing.* *

So let me get this str8, if i install and then do updates i will have the plugins placed into my browerses and all that sorta good* stuff??

if the OS cant do that then its basically useless to me.

I just need soneone to tell me whats up, so far i havent gotten any really solid answers.

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Well in that case Don't go 64bit O/S for the moment.

currently Flash don't work on 64bit nor does most video plugins for web browsers.

If you need your O/S to work as you have described above then stay away from 64bit for a while, stick with 32 probably for about another year or so then you should be safe to try 64 bit