[OU] 64bit Opera

Joel Gomberg jgomberg at pacbell.net
Sat Oct 20 15:16:07 UTC 2007


Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On 10/20/07, Luther Gulseth <lgulseth at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I just upgraded my computer to an AMD dual core 64bit processor.  I'm
>>  currently playing around with several different Linux distros that are
>>  64bit.  I downloaded Opera, only to find out that the i386 compile won't
>>  work on the 64bit install.  Is there any thought in the future to
>>  compile Opera as 64bit also?  Thanks all.
> 
> http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
> 
> Access the above link and search for "OS Integration". Apparently, the
> 9.5 will come with 64bit builds:
> http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/snapshot-1636/

I haven't tried compiling it, but I've been using the 64-bit Fedora RPM.  Since 
plugins don't work reliably in the i386 version either, I really can't tell the 
difference between the two in terms of performance or stability.

-- 
Joel


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