[plug] AMD64 distros

[Michael]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Sol Hanna wrote:

> 
> 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

How does Suse go for the latest software? I mean, Mandrake has the Cooker 
and I know of the Suse People thing but thats about it, not how it works. 
I can find all the mirrors but how do you update Suse? (I'm addicted to 
urpmi).

Regards
Michael Collard

> 
> 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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