I don't have much to add except that I've been happy with Gentoo on my AMD64. It wasn't that great when I started on it a year or so ago, but it's come along quite nicely. Almost completely painless.
pax, Scott On 2/9/07, John Demme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't mean to start a distro flamewar, but I've been running Gentoo amd64 for about 5 months and haven't had many issues. Flash works fine, mplayer works, ect. Gentoo does it by providing emul-x86 packages so you run 64-bit as much as you can, and you run whatever you can't using the x86 emulation libraries. I think it just compiles both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of all the important libraries. The one issue I have had is with a pretty obscure library- libphysics, I think. Portage compiles it 64-bit, but a game I want to run needs a 32-bit version of it, and I haven't been able to get a 32-bit version of it installed and working. I'm sure there's a way, but it hasn't been worth that much of my time yet. Anyway, if you really want to run 64-bit, you might try Gentoo. Perhaps other distributions get it right as well. ~John
