[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[Colm Buckley]

On 29 Jun 2005, at 10:55, Kevin Philp wrote:

> I use Gentoo at home. Not so I can get an extra 5% on my  
> performance but because I enjoy the learning process.

This is a very good point.  Because of the effort which can be put  
into customisation and tweaking, Gentoo (and Slackware) are good  
distributions for learning about the effects of compiler options, and  
for learning some of what goes on under the hood.  For exactly the  
same reasons, they're bad distributions for production systems, where  
stability and maintainability are at a higher premium - or where CPU  
cycles are not available to be spent compiling new versions.

Note that there's a disctinction between actually tweaking things and  
observing the results (learning) and "watching stuff scroll by for  
hours makes you an expert".

They might not also be suitable for people who already know how  
compilers work, how distributions are put together, how packaging  
systems should work, or for people who want to rapidly deploy  
hundreds or thousands of systems.

     Colm

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