[PLUG] amd 64 distros

Vincent Yau v_yau3 at hotmail.com
Sun May 22 06:44:27 UTC 2005


So which distro is the most popular on the AMD 64 platform?

--Vincent



>From: Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com>
>Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic" 
><plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic" 
><plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] amd 64 distros
>Date: 21 May 2005 23:08:58 -0700
>
> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>John> After the Clinic I was kind of discouraged and planning on
>John> returning it to HP, maybe as early as Monday. But just now,
>John> while browsing for 64-bit distros other than Mandriva and Suse,
>
>Eric> Looks like there's some work in debian (unofficial as of yet)
>Eric> and ubuntu.  Thought Red er... (that thing you wear on your
>Eric> head) had an AMD64 version.
>
>Eric> Sounds like you're blazing new ground here.  Out-of-the-box
>Eric> isn't always going to work (else you would have bought it
>Eric> pre-installed right?), so you might as well learn to do things
>Eric> the hard way.  Besides, installing debian has gotten
>Eric> oh-so-much-easier since '99 (and even then they said a chicken
>Eric> could do it.)
>
>I thought of Debian, but (out-of-the-box anyway), but his keyboard and
>touchpad are dead in Debian-derived Ubuntu and Knoppix live cds.  His
>USB wireless mouse worked and we plugged in a borrowed USB keyboard
>and it "worked" if you count randomly repeated keystrokes as "working"
>(hey, maybe it was a labor-saving idea!).  Probably all sortable
>though.  I only had three hours to work with, so I didn't go there.
>
>
>--
>Russell Senior         ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.''
>seniorr at aracnet.com
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