[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Dave O' Connor]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Paul Jakma wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Nils Olofsson wrote:
>
> > > See, the kind of people who use gentoo are, at a guess, the same kind
> > > of people who do silly things like 'rpm -i --force --nodeps XYZ.rpm'.
>
> > Thats Bullshit, plain and simple.
>
> Well, doing the above is reason #1 for people concluding rpm is crap.
>
> (Personally, I think rpm should make it difficult to do the above).
>
> > I've never complained that RPM is crap..so your proved wrong, And Gentoo is
> > more than Compiler flags/packages.
>
> Well, I went to gentoo.org, clicked on 'About Gentoo' and got:
>
>        http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml
>
> "He discovered lots of up-to-date packages that could be auto-built using the
> optimization settings and build-time functionality that *he* wanted, rather
> than what some distro creator thought would be best for him".
>
> So I guess you should take it up with the Gentoo people.. cause that's
> certainly a major aspect of how Gentoo is advertised.
>
> As for vast numbers of packages, Debian has that already anyway (and Fedora
> isn't too bad once you add Dag/RF/NewRPMs/bravegnuworld to your sources).
>
> BTW: Couple of my machines are quite slow (pentium or P-II class machines), I
> guess Gentoo's super-optimised custom software approach is exactly what I need
> to speed them up, right? How long will it take to install Gentoo on a Pentium
> 233MMX would you know (and time each week to keep it up to date). Or would
> there be any way to compile binary packages on a fast machine, for installing
> on the slow ones?

Check out a stage 3 install with emerge's --usepkg

> FC4 installed in about an hour on that machine btw.
>
> regards,
>

Not really bothered replying to any of the rest. If people can't do their
own research before starting to put something down it says enough really.

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