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On 20:51 Wed 26 Jan, Michael Lazin wrote:
> My linux box died a little while ago, and I am thinking about building
> an Athlon 64 machine to be my new linux box. Does anyone in the group
> have experience with 64 bit linux? What kind of 64 bit software is
> available?
>
I've had good success installing and using Gentoo on 2 separate AMD64
boxes. I have the MSI K8T800 and the MSI K8N mobos and find that
everything is well supported (though I only use single SATA HDDs, not
SATA RAID of any kind ---but I do recall people on the gentoo forums
having this stuff working).
I've actually switched back to running 32-bit Gentoo on these boxes,
however, b/c at the time I was running 64-bit there were a lot of apps
that I make regular use of that weren't available. Much of that software
was reported as working by a lot of people, but much of it required a
bit more hacking than I was willing to undertake, so I decided to go for
the broader availabilty of software instead of the pure 64-bit power.
I'll probably go back to 64-bit in a few months, but in the meantime the
boxes perform terrifically in 32-bit mode. I've been told that 32-bit
Linux on 64-bit arch. is still faster than the equivalent 32-bit
processors, but have not done any personal benchmarking to verify this.
Good luck with whichever decision you make.
Cheers,
Dave
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