-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Craig Box wrote: | Aaah, our local Gentoo zealot returns! :) | |> So the tradeoffs are - a distribution that is unbeatably fast, |> slow to setup but teaches you everything about the insides vs. a |> slightly slower system - thats quick to setup but doesn't teach |> you much at all. Try Gentoo first ;). | | | While I don't have any first hand experience to offer, Fedora Core | 3 and Ubuntu both offer native amd64 versions, and they are flavour | of the month with wlug members at the moment. If you are familiar | with Debian, (I believe you to be a WAND student?) Ubuntu might | well be your best answer. | I am currently used Ubuntu on my laptop as main productivity. It's extremely healthy & stable. I love it. Also, I do have an gentoo copied on my old p4 machine. The point that make gentoo a bit better is to give me choice to install what I want but ubuntu doesn't. Say, I want gnome but not evolution / mozilla and whole lots other; which ubuntu, its already there and I fear of apt-get remove will get me in trouble, meanwhile, with gentoo just emerge gnome-light and eventually install what I want :)) | A couple of people (Perry springs to mind) run Gentoo on an AMD64, | but have had problems running the ~amd64 branch due to things not | being entirely 64-bit ready or clean. Your mileage may vary as to | what does and doesn't work, but come this time next year, the | answer should be an emphatic 'everything'. Basically, I don't want to wait :) b'coz to me, there is no deadline in OSS. Anyway, any body got experience with flash & mplayer with 32-bin only codec (wma/wmv/real/qt)? running in 64-bit Ubuntu/FC3/gentoo ? Thanks lot, Nigel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB1Jvj8Zb1b6sN9OgRAkNLAJsFfSW4DXceBnb8X4trm0TuD8FPIACfQ71J C5z34xrvLGP3RsbZkz66oJs= =caTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----