Author: Michael Yee
Date: 07:35:54 03/05/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 08:07:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >I'm considering to install Linux on my machine (AMD64) to run alongside Windows >(fed up waiting for 64 bit Windows). I see that there are just too many Linux >distributions to choose from, and it's very hard to see the forest through the >trees. Redhat seems to be the most popular distribution, but I see that it is no >longer free. So, what would you recommend (64 bit support is a must of course)? >I considered Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake... but frankly I have no idea which one to >choose. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. I recently made a similar decision (although not 64-bit). I had previous experience with red hat, so I was leaning towards fedora. But my brother-in-law suggested either gentoo or lfs (linux from scratch) was a more "manly" way to do it :) I eventually decided on fedora since it seemed easier and would probably have many binary rpms available. However, it wasn't always easy installing new software that way (due to versioning problems, etc.). Gentoo might be the way to go for you if you want performance. It basically compiles everything for your particular machine (instead of using generic builds from other people). Let us know what you decide... Michael
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