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[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

Vishal Vatsa vishal at cs.may.ie
Wed Jun 22 16:10:08 IST 2005


On Wed 22 Jun 2005 15:44, nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie wrote:
> 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.
Go on then, shoot some links our way. I would like to have a laugh :)

> 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.
I am sure gentoo 64 is great. Only if portage did not break every so often and 
I did not have wait to 2days for kde to compile, I only have a little old 1.8 
GHz AMD.

A crap if only I could use some system on debian to compile my packages from 
src, humm is there any thing like deb-src? any one?

> Quoting Colm Buckley <colm at tuatha.org>:
> > On 22 Jun 2005, at 15:31, nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie wrote:
> > > gentoo
> > >
> > > wouldn't touch anything else.
> >
> > http://www.funroll-loops.org/
> >
> >      Colm
> >
> > --
> > Colm Buckley / colm at tuatha.org / +353 87 2469146
> >
> >
> > --
> > Irish Linux Users' Group
> > http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug/

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Vishal Vatsa
Dept. of Computer Sc.
NUI Maynooth.
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