[ubuntu-za] Adobe and SARS e-filing

[David Robert Lewis]

Lee Sharp wrote:
> David Robert Lewis wrote:
>   
>> Okay, found the link, but its to an x86 version, so no 64bit! Adobe 
>> should stick to making mud houses for people who live in third-world slums.
>>
>> Would be great if the e-filing was asking people to install Ubuntu or 
>> Foxit, and promoting local businesses which use South African software!!!
>>
>> I'll see if I can compile it for 64bit, otherwise I have to boot up my 
>> WindowsXP in a VM and act like I'm Jacques Cousteau exploring the 
>> inner-science of a strange and foreign world.
>>     
>
> 32 bit programs will run on a 64 bit system.  You just need the 32 bit 
> libraries.
>
> 			Lee
>
>   
In theory. However, if you look at the way Adobe Air has been 
implemented, you'll realise the exercise in futility of increasing the 
number of dependencies which then rely on a variety of symbolic links 
just to get the libraries to talk to each other, and so it goes.

I like the fact that 64bit means one can address a whole lot more 
memory, but it's still early days.

I therefore would not seriously recommend anybody try 64bit Ubuntu 
unless you want to use more than 4GB ram.

Will let you know if the massive 60mb download works on my system with 
32bit or not!


Holding thumbs.

-DRL


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