[PLUG] amd 64 distros

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Most of the RHEL clones (CentOS, White Box, Tao, Lineox) have AMD64
versions now. Gentoo also has AMD64. What do you plan to do with the box
when you get Linux on it?

Eric Wilhelm wrote:

># The following was supposedly scribed by
># John Jordan
># on Saturday 21 May 2005 08:59 pm:
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>>After the Clinic I was kind of discouraged and
>>planning on returning it to HP, maybe as early as Monday. But just
>>now, while browsing for 64-bit distros other than Mandriva and
>>Suse,
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>Looks like there's some work in debian (unofficial as of yet) and 
>ubuntu.  Thought Red er... (that thing you wear on your head) had an 
>AMD64 version.
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>Sounds like you're blazing new ground here.  Out-of-the-box isn't always 
>going to work (else you would have bought it pre-installed right?), so 
>you might as well learn to do things the hard way.  Besides, installing 
>debian has gotten oh-so-much-easier since '99 (and even then they said 
>a chicken could do it.)
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>--Eric
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