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Here you will find some answers to most questions amd64 users should have: |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-221361.html |
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Best regards, |
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Etienne |
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2006/1/24, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch>: |
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> On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:19, lnxg33k wrote: |
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> > It's always good to know your system, but the entire installation |
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> process |
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> > is rather painless (minus my experience with Grub which isn't |
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> architecture |
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> > dependent). You'll want to learn more about the CPU if you plan on |
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> > developing for it, but as a user you should be fine. You'll learn a lot |
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> > simply by using the environment and reading up when you can or run into |
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> > problems. Anyway, good luck with your install whichever distro you |
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> decide |
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> > to use. |
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> |
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> I've chosen a *big* harddisk so I'll probably go for all three to see what |
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> they do. However, the main reason why I did not switch to Gentoo is I was |
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> lazy - my double Athlon has been running Mepis for over two years with |
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> little |
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> changes so I justed sticked to running it so. |
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> Changing my main machine seems the good time to switch and get more |
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> control |
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> over the system. I just tested emerge --update --deep world on my 32bit |
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> Gentoo and all went well (I just had to set the Displamanager back to kdm |
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> by |
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> hand) and while I prefer apt-get to SuSE's rpms, nothing beats emerge. |
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> Thierry |
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> -- |
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> The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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> capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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> safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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> Frank Zappa |
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