Chris Alvarez wrote:
Yea, sorry, I meant AMD64 bit. Also, I found something about SuSE 9.1 Pro in AMD 64, but I wanted toanandtech did an "out of the box" review (http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2114) in which SuSe walloped the competition in benchmarks. They really only lost in the gaming benchmarks.
know from someone who tried Linux in 64-bit.
http://www.suse.com/en/private/products/suse_linux/prof/64bit.html
Thanks for the comment
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I could be wrong, but I believe that IA64 usually referrers to Intel
Itanium architecture, while distros generally refer to the AMD 64-bit
architecture as AMD64. You might want to be careful, since I'm pretty
sure they're different.
From what I could find, FC1 seems to have AMD64 support, as does
Mandrake 10, and Gentoo. Beyond that, I can't tell you. I do know that
my boss at work was very frustrated when he couldn't get Debian for his
new quad-Opteron database server, and had to go to Gentoo, but I haven't
had any direct experience with it myself.
Also, I suspect FreeBSD and OpenBSD would work, if you wanted to try
that route.
You might check out http://www.distrowatch.com. It seems to be pretty
informative.
Hope this helps,
Lloyd Brown
Chris Alvarez wrote:
Hello all
I was wondering if any of you has used some Linux distro in a 64-bit
processor. I was planning in building a comp with an Athlon 64 FX-53and
I wanted to run Linux in it(SuSE 9.1 Pro or Fedora Core 2, preferably,I
open to other options). I have heard that Linux drivers and softare
in 64-bit are not in a mature development stage yet. I wanted to hear
some thoughts on that.
Chris Alvarez
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