[Pc_Support] Now 64-bit ... no real issues except Firefox x86-64(replaced with Firefox i386)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 09:13 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> I need to install that, just need to work out some free disk space.

Well, I'm in a small MicroATX case, only 5.5" x 12" x 13".
Athlon64 3200+ and GeForce 6800GT.  ;-ppp
And yes, I found a true 450W with ATX12V/ATX2.0+4-pint for it.

> Have you tried the FC4 code yet?  I'd be interested to see how it has
> changed.

It's still Test 1.
It's also has GCC 4.0 and other, major changes, at least in test.
I consider it a ".0" revision (CL5.0?).
Apparently the CL4 ABI line ends with Fedora Core 3 (CL4.1).

Of course, Red Hat could decide to go back to GCC 3.x before release.
They've done that before, rolled back the Beta (RHL7.3).
But it doesn't look like it.

> On a related note, have you tried CentOS R4 yet?  I'm trying to decide
> between it and Fedora for use on my home system.

I have decided against using the SRPM rebuilds.  I've been on both the
White Box and CentOS lists almost since their inception.  Various
snafus, late-to-rebuild releases and other details have me wondering.

I think Red Hat's Michael Tiemann hit it on the head, and even eWeek's
Vaughn-Nichols seems to have as well.  RHEL is for the SLAs.  If you
want RHEL without SLAs, you might as well running Fedora, and it's more
current anyway.

Fedora Core 3 is the most compatible and rock-solid community release
since Red Hat Linux 7.3 IMHO.  I plan on donating some of my time to
Fedora Legacy to see it's upkeep when it's dropped as a current distro
later this year.


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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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