Author: Pallav Nawani
Date: 19:56:58 03/05/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 20:00:00, Anthony Cozzie 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 like Gentoo, and its 64-bit support is pretty good (I've been using it as my >main machine for a year now). > >I personally much prefer package based distros (Debian/Gentoo) over release >based distros (Suse/Mandrake/RedHat). > >anthony How well up to date is Gentoo? What about the software supplied with gentoo? I am going to install a new version of Fc3 soon, but I'm interested in knowing what is the strong point of Gentoo vs others. Maybe I'll switch to gentoo instead :) Pallav
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