[wellylug] 64-bit Linux

[Joel Wiramu Pauling]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 15:28 +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> Having just built myself a new AMD64 3200+ machine I've been playing
> around with Gentoo for AMD 64 and must say that I am pretty impressed with
> the overall speed, but a little concerned about the lack of applications
> that have been ported to 64bit (no Openoffice yet for example).
> What other Linux distros offer 64 bit versions? Can anoyone provide me
> with copies of them? (I will of course replace media).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jamie

Stick with Gentoo dude, I have had an opteron for nearly 2 years.
Nothing comes close to Gentoo's amd64 portage collection. As for
openoffice, the port to amd64 is not yet complete, you can build it on
gentoo (with a little difficulty) but actually using it is different
question. Gentoo provide openoffice-bin and you can unmask rc2 easily.

Suse is probably second best amd64 platform, followed by Fedora,
mandrake/slamd64 are still in the infancy of amd64 support, and don't
even think about debian, amd64 has only JUST (read last 2 months) become
an official arch, and is a right PITA to use from accounts.

These IMHO of course.


Joel W