houze,
I'm glad you've got it down fairly well. I'm looking to build a 64 bit system in the next year and Gentoo is a possibility. I'm looking to do video editing and audio recording on a dual opteron setup. How's the app compatability under 64 bit? Any gotchas I might need to know about? I might go with fedora 64 for a bit. It seems the audio people prefer it. If the 64 bit app situation is worse in Fedora I might just have seperate setups for audio recording and general day-to-day use.
Pat
Gentoo
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You could treat it as 32-bit athlon-mps with x86 keywords instead of amd64 for absolute compatibility.
The things missing from using 64-bit install instead of 32-bit:
cisco vpn client bails on install. I do have 64-bit drivers working with ndiswrapper on a broadcom card.
flash plugin doesn't work with compiled firefox, but you can emerge mozilla-firefox-bin for a prebuilt 32-bit firefox.
Win32codecs aren't installed. Net result can't play back quicktime or windows media files.
I think this can be worked around.
When I firsted merged a closed source package like acroread or realplayer, portage installs various "libraries for emulation of 32bit x86 on amd64"
Not quite sure what you mean by app compatability.
I'd take a look a packages.gentoo.org and search for the apps you intend to use for stability on amd64.
The things missing from using 64-bit install instead of 32-bit:
cisco vpn client bails on install. I do have 64-bit drivers working with ndiswrapper on a broadcom card.
flash plugin doesn't work with compiled firefox, but you can emerge mozilla-firefox-bin for a prebuilt 32-bit firefox.
Win32codecs aren't installed. Net result can't play back quicktime or windows media files.
I think this can be worked around.
When I firsted merged a closed source package like acroread or realplayer, portage installs various "libraries for emulation of 32bit x86 on amd64"
Not quite sure what you mean by app compatability.
I'd take a look a packages.gentoo.org and search for the apps you intend to use for stability on amd64.
What do people think of VidaLinux ??
I installed it on a system at work but didnt have much time to do much with it. So gave it a whirl on a spare partition on my system. Haven't done much with it yet, but seems to be a Gentoo that has all the basics in binaries on the CD, thus you can get going in 20mins before needing to compile/emerge other apps your specifically after/need.
I installed it on a system at work but didnt have much time to do much with it. So gave it a whirl on a spare partition on my system. Haven't done much with it yet, but seems to be a Gentoo that has all the basics in binaries on the CD, thus you can get going in 20mins before needing to compile/emerge other apps your specifically after/need.
Linux david 2.6.29.3-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Thu May 14 15:19:40 EDT 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
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Distro: Mandriva 2009.1