> To which, on 11/22/2011 11:00 AM, erik quanstrom responded: > > today's nix is quite raw. unless you're working on nix itself, > > you'll be happier with plan 9. > > Is NIX the only distribution for amd64, then? I just want to play > around in user space: learn Go, use Unicode in C, &c., &c. Would I be > better off using a 32-bit distro?
nix runs in x86_64 long mode, the others do not. everything should run on amd64 hardware and accomplish what you're after, though. - erik
