X86-64 Linux

[City_Idiot]

Hey All,

Looking for a good x86-64 linux distro that runs in 64-bit mode. I know that Mandfrake,Redhet Server and Suse all have native support for it but have i missed any? and out of those 3 which would be the simplist to learn?

[Control_Phreak]

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5428

[Secern]

Mandrake, there are more but are all not recommended by me. just goto I think:

www.linuxiso.org ?

Mandrake/Red Hat they are both easy except Mandrake is more friendly :D

[FRiO]

Like I mentioned in that other thread, you may like to consider FreeBSD for database work.

But otherwise, give Gentoo a try. There was an article a while back about how Athlon 64s should now be supported properly - you can specify that you're using an Athlon64 in your CFLAGS, so everything that gets compiled and installed is built for 64bit. And on a 3200+ 64bit processor, the install should be a much snappier process than on my Athlon 1800+ :p.

I'll skip the usual marketing speak, but Gentoo is a really, really nice OS to work with. If you don't mind the fact that installing things takes ages (as it's compiling), you'll find a distro that's solid, fairly stable, and is easy to administrate (without being over-n00bified).

Debian should support 64bit as well... but I'm not too sure, it still might not be considered "stable".

[varkk]

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/

As I said in your other thread, Fedora developement has a full x86-64 release for develope/testing purposes. Also RHEL is only $25US for an academic license.

http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/rhel/ws/#amd

Of course you could always compile yor own 64bit version :p