On Monday 23 January 2006 04:47 pm, 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? > - 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? > - it seems most of the multimedia codecs still are 32 bit. Can you use > these on a 64 bit distro? > - 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? > > Thanks for any advice. > > Thierry >
Just add my $.02 that my amd64 server runs great. If you find something not available in portage on amd64, you can easily try unmasking the particular program/ebuild and give it a whirl. No harm if it still fails but usually that works perfect in most cases. -- [email protected] mailing list
