What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 13, 2006 20:19 UTC (Wed) by Nelson (subscriber, #21712)
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

I was using Mandriva with Opteron for a while and it lagged. They've had some issues within their org and I assume they're getting them fixed but for a while they had forgot about x86_64, literally, the build machine that does the automatic builds was broken and nobody knew or did anything about it. Other than that, Fedora Core has a decent 64bit distribution. It includes all the 32bit stuff so that you can run off the shelf apps. If you for some reason need it to be "pure 64bit" across the board, you might be out of luck but if you don't mind running a 32bit openoffice or some other apps then you'll be fine. I've really not noticed any difference in support, I can run everything I need to and since I use it day in and day out at the job I tend to run a lot of stuff.

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What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 13, 2006 23:44 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Actually, the 64-bit OpenOffice.org is available in the Fedora Core 5 updates, and it works much faster. So it is possible to go pure 64-bit without sacrificing any supported free software.

What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 19, 2006 18:08 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]

iirc, some dude did know about it, but he delayed the repair in protest of something... I forget what the fuss was all about.

Their x86_64 seem to be updated and working these days. Things were really sad for a while.