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

[peter woodman]

if you run unstable (like i said, as you should), the binary 
repositories are far from stale.

On Mar 8, 2005, at 12:01 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

>     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
>