[plug] AMD64 distros

[Sol Hanna]

Have you tried Suse 9.1 Professional?
http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/prof/64bit.html

Contact me off list if you want to get copy.

/sol


On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 08:22, Michael wrote:
> For the last 5 months or so since I've had an AMD64 system and have been 
> running 32 bit distributions because I cannot find a good, practical 64 
> bit distro for the AMD64 that has a good method for 32 bit compatibility 
> and is updated often.
> 
> I have tried Gentoo64, Mandrake64 and Fedora64. Gentoo64 seemed OK to 
> install etc but there were so many problems with various packages not 
> compiling and to setup a 32 bit environment is traumatic. Fedora64 just 
> never worked properly from the start. I've seen the same for Fedora 
> ia32 so I've decided never to touch it again! :). 
> 
> Mandrake64 runs fine and does the 32 bit environment properly IMHO but the 
> software is old (I like running bleeding edge). I guess what I want is a 
> hybrid 64/32 system similar to what Suse and Mandrake have but updated 
> more often.
> 
> Actually I probably need to understand how 64bit programs work. I really 
> don't know if its even possible for 64 bit programs to open and use 32 bit 
> libraries. (e.g wine). Any thoughts/comments on the above?
> 
> Regards
> Michael Collard
> 
> 
> 
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