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On Monday 23 January 2006 04:47 pm, Thierry de Coulon wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> I have been a Linux user for over five years - mostly using SuSE first, |
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> then Debian based distributions, but from time to time "toying" with |
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> Gentoo. |
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> Now I'm in the process of building an Opteron based machine and decided it |
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> would be a good idea to build a Gentoo-amd64 distribution. |
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> I've googled quite a bit but I would still like to ask a few questions, |
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> such as: |
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> - are there special points I should pay attention to or can I simply follow |
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> the amd64 install instruction? |
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> - As far as I understand there are still lots of programs that won't |
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> compile in 64 bit. What will happen if I try to emerge such a program? |
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> - it seems most of the multimedia codecs still are 32 bit. Can you use |
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> these on a 64 bit distro? |
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> - other 64 bit distributions (I've downloaded SuSE and Kubuntu) will |
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> allready have dealt with most compatibility problems. Should I learn more |
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> about 64 bit specificities before attempting to build a Gentoo-64 system? |
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> Thanks for any advice. |
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> Thierry |
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Just add my $.02 that my amd64 server runs great. If you find something not |
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available in portage on amd64, you can easily try unmasking the particular |
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program/ebuild and give it a whirl. No harm if it still fails but usually |
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that works perfect in most cases. |
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