[linux] 64-bit linux (and my ode to Gentoo!)

[Garrett Cooper]

    Should have known there was more 64-bit support offered in the distros,
but I thought I might be a bit brash in stating what I did. Besides, it
makes for interesting feedback and quite quick feedback at that :-D.
    But let me get this straight... does Debian only have 'unofficial'
support for 64-bit support at this time? Hmmm... still interesting, but it
would be nice when it becomes official. I don't like the stale nature of
debian's binary repositories though...
    I admit, I also run Fedora as well because I basically just slapped it
on my machine and it works, but X is 'broken' for some odd reason and it's
XFree since I'm running FC1 so I plan on just redoing my system and
installing Gentoo on the next go around since Fedora is actually slower and
consumes more memory with additional services than Gentoo I have noticed.
-Garrett

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michal" <michalg at gmail.com>
To: "Linux/Unix Users Group at the UW" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [linux] 64-bit linux (and my ode to Gentoo!)


> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:20:13 -0800, Garrett Cooper
> <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> > Redhat doesn't list anything about 64-bit computing I could find off the
> > bat and couldn't find any quick links to anything; didn't check Fedora's
> > section.
>
> FC's had x86-64 support for a while:
>
> mikeg at cosmos:/var/log >uname -p
> x86_64
> mikeg at cosmos:~ >cat /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
> mikeg at cosmos:~ >uptime
>  22:43:53 up 206 days, 13:39, 12 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> -Michal