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[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

Conor Wynne nospam at conorwynne.com
Wed Jun 22 16:03:56 IST 2005


> Yes yes, this is old at this stage.
> The guys who run that site are obvious lamers, Its not like gentoo folk go
> around taking the piss of debian and its clones, which believe me is a
> very easy
> thing to do.
> Portage is perfect for 64 bit, you would be best off compiling all your
> own
> software for it anyway, considering customisation is all the more
> important for
> 64 arch.  Alos gentoo 64 has a whole load of nice tweaks, check it out
> before u
> dish it.


X86_64 machines tend to be already optimised for X86_64.

Why? Since no other processors will run those kernels.
Also because there is only one ADM64 architecture (for the moment, AFAIK)

Please correct me if I am wrong lads.

regards
Conor.

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