[Pc_Support] AMD64 versus x86

[Homer Whittaker]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>Homer Whittaker <whittake at sbaflorida.com> wrote:
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>>While I have an Asus K8V SE Deluxe with a Socket754 for
>>Athlon 64 processor that supports both 32 bit and 64 bit
>>computing I cannot seem to find any 64 bit Operating
>>Systems and/or programs that are even a little bit stable.
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>I've rolled out HP DL585 (4x S940 Opteron) with RHEL3.
>I'm also now running CentOS/RHEL 3 and 4 on my Athlon 64, as
>well as Fedora Core 3.
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>>Some of the Debian stuff claims that it is unstable 
>>but it acts more like Developement stuff.
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>Debian doesn't have an official x86-64 port yet.  I have not
>tried SuSE, but the SGI XFS list is buzz with a lot of
>complaints on their x86-64 release.
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>I've only used Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, CentOS (a RHEL
>rebuild) 3 and 4, and Fedora Core 3 on my Athlon 64 -- all
>x86-64.
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>I have installed 2 and 4-way HP and Tyan Opteron systems with
>RHEL3 prior.  Several were running Oracle for production
>financial and engineering usage.
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>>My question of you who are more knowledgable in this area,
>>should I just quit messing with 64 bit and use the 32 bit
>>side of the box until the Year 20XX?
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>64-bit works fine for me.
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>My only complaint is Red Hat's insistance to install the
>x86_64 Firefox package when the i386 is more appropriate
>because nearly all plug-ins are still i386 -- including
>HelixPlayer which Red Hat ships.
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When I first put the  K8V SE Deluxe on the machine I purchased a copy of 
the Suse9.1 to go with it.  In general it seemed to work fine except I 
could not get used to that weird (in my opinion) Yast.  Also I was 
unable to appreciate the Tuetonic (German) methodology and tone in their 
help, or lack of.  The 9.1   grabbed both, yup, both of my hard drives 
and I could not figure out how to  get them separated. 
Homer

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