On Monday 23 January 2006 23:47, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been a Linux user for over five years - mostly using SuSE first, > then Debian based distributions, but from time to time "toying" with > Gentoo. > > Now I'm in the process of building an Opteron based machine and decided it > would be a good idea to build a Gentoo-amd64 distribution. > > I've googled quite a bit but I would still like to ask a few questions, > such as: > - are there special points I should pay attention to or can I simply follow > the amd64 install instruction?
just follow it. > - As far as I understand there are still lots of programs that won't > compile in 64 bit. What will happen if I try to emerge such a program? nothing, it will fail somewhere. A little bit of wasted clock cycles. Nothing else. > - it seems most of the multimedia codecs still are 32 bit. Can you use > these on a 64 bit distro? yes. emerge mplayer-bin > - other 64 bit distributions (I've downloaded SuSE and Kubuntu) will > allready have dealt with most compatibility problems. Should I learn more > about 64 bit specificities before attempting to build a Gentoo-64 system? don't know what you mean. If it is about flash - install opera. -- [email protected] mailing list
