[wellylug] 64-bit Linux

[Ian Sterling]

On 10/11/05, Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs at orcon.net.nz> 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).

I'm going to have to agree with Joel on this one Jamie.  I've done a
Gentoo compile on a 939 box and was pleasantly surprised at the speed
of the box. (Glibc compiled in 22 minutes!!! OMFG!)  I didn't get to
the point of install OOo (have Office on the Mac), but everything else
I built seemed to work just fine.

For the time being, you're not going to find a whole lot of 64-bit
apps - they're just not quite there yet.  But most will compile on a
64-bit box just fine.  I will say this though: from what I've seen
(and granted, it's not much), there's a whole lot MORE apps that do
64-bit on linux than there are 64-bit windows apps. :-)