I'm going to have to agree with this. I've got Gentoo running on AMD64 and it's great. The only annoying part is how I have to run different versions of firefox to see flash (Gentoo makes this easy by offering both a compiled 64-bit version, as well as a 32-bit binary version that supports the 32-bit flash plugin). I've found package management in Gentoo to be much better than most other distros out there, since it's largely based off of BSD's ports system which I personally think is fantastic. Also, Gentoo's installation has come a long way since I first tried it out. They have alternate methods of installation which includes graphical installs based off of LiveCD images which makes the whole installation process much simpler.
Anyway, those are my $.02 On 2/9/07, J. Scott Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't have much to add except that I've been happy with Gentoo on my AMD64. It wasn't that great when I started on it a year or so ago, but it's come along quite nicely. Almost completely painless. pax, Scott On 2/9/07, John Demme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't mean to start a distro flamewar, but I've been running Gentoo > amd64 for about 5 months and haven't had many issues. Flash works fine, > mplayer works, ect. Gentoo does it by providing emul-x86 packages so you > run 64-bit as much as you can, and you run whatever you can't using the x86 > emulation libraries. I think it just compiles both 32-bit and 64-bit > versions of all the important libraries. The one issue I have had is with a > pretty obscure library- libphysics, I think. Portage compiles it 64-bit, > but a game I want to run needs a 32-bit version of it, and I haven't been > able to get a 32-bit version of it installed and working. I'm sure there's > a way, but it hasn't been worth that much of my time yet. > > Anyway, if you really want to run 64-bit, you might try Gentoo. Perhaps > other distributions get it right as well. > > ~John > >
