AMD_64 Linux distro recommendations?

[Fraser Campbell]

On Saturday 08 January 2005 16:02, DanG wrote:

> Can people give me some recommendations on some good stable AMD_64 distros
> to use? I am just bought an Athlon 64 3500 and an MSI K8T Neo2-Fir
> mainboard so I would like to use an optimized distro that runs well and
> supports the mainboard/chipset and hardware well.

It depends on your definition of "good" or  "stable".  Debian "stable" is the 
most stable distribution AFAIK, it's been the same for more than 3 years.  If 
your favorite distro is Mandrake, Redhat or SuSe then probably that's what 
you should go with.

What makes a good Linux distribution for me is one that makes maintenance 
easy, installation is almost irrelevant since it involves a fraction of the 
machine's lifetime.  This means that I like Debian for, I can choose from 
14,000 packages to install with a single command, I can upgrade with two 
commands.

LWN authors have reviewed various AMD64 distros over the past few months, in 
no particular order here are some of those reviews:

Gentoo - http://lwn.net/Articles/114992/
Debian - http://lwn.net/Articles/113527/
Fedora - http://lwn.net/Articles/113741/

I have no experience with any of these distros (in the 64bit sense) but when I 
soon buy my AMD64 system it will primarily be running Debian.  I've used 
Debian on x86, sparc and mips (Cobalt), x86_64 won't change that preference.  
For work reasons SuSe and Solaris10 (hopefully) will be on there as well.

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