Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 08:34:23 03/05/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 10:35:54, Michael Yee wrote: >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). You do have the generic build install option, if they have builds for your architecture. For instance, I installe the stock i686 build without compiles to start the base machine. But after that, all updates and extra packages are built with your selected optimizations. > >Let us know what you decide... > >Michael
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