[gentoo-amd64] 64 newbie

[Thierry de Coulon]

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

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