Which Distros are 64bit?

apu318 · Apr 17, 2005

I'm gunna toss on a 64bit version of Linux and I don't know what distro's are 64bit. Which one is the best for new Linux users? Something easy to set up. The more user friendly the better.

MRD · Apr 17, 2005

Gentoo for one. Not all packages are available in 64 bit ebuilds yet, but quite a few are.

WingsofGOD · Apr 17, 2005

'm gunna toss on a 64bit version of Linux and I don't know what distro's are 64bit. Which one is the best for new Linux users? Something easy to set up. The more user friendly the better.

Sounds like a candidate for Suse 9.2, has a 64bit version....

Gnufsh · Apr 17, 2005

I believe Fedora also has a 64-bit version.

Gentoo is my favorite distro, though.

Super Nade · Apr 17, 2005

Mandrake 10.1 is the easiest 64 bit distro to handle. I'd wet my feet starting out with Mandrake. Painless install. I would say Overclokix is pretty nice, but I'm not sure if its 64 bit.

dropadrop · Apr 17, 2005

Is there alot more 64bit ebuilds in gentoo then there was 6 months ago?

JamminPotato · Apr 17, 2005

i'd recommend ubuntu

MRD · Apr 17, 2005

You can look for yourself on the webpage if you want to see what is available. http://www.gentoo.org and choose "online package database"

apu318 · Apr 18, 2005

Are there any distros that offer full NTFS support? Like read/write? I'd take that over 64bit.. and ease of use is no issue. Ill learn the hard way if i have to.

eNightmare · Apr 18, 2005

apu318 said:
Are there any distros that offer full NTFS support? Like read/write? I'd take that over 64bit.. and ease of use is no issue. Ill learn the hard way if i have to.

You might look into a program called NTFS-Captive. This should allow you to read and write to NT FileSystems. However, I have not tested write. Of course you can use that application with a 64 bit OS.

Gnufsh · Apr 18, 2005

Captive is a little slow, but it works fine for me:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

It provides a wrapper around the windows NTFS drivers.

apu318 · Apr 18, 2005

Thanks. I'll check it out when I toss Gentoo on. Would this be okay to use on a bootable linux cd like knoppix or something?

OSGentoo · Apr 18, 2005

I've personally had better luck with gentoo on my amd64 than anything else (mandrake, suse, fedora), but...... its not perfect..... if you don't mind a little work and you know what you are doing, gentoo is awesome.

personal note...... i have the slowest amd64 available with an ok msi mobo and its is a bit faster than my slightly overclocked p4 2.6c with a top of the line msi mobo in 32 bit....... in 64 bit....... its not even a contest, on gentoo, this thing is straight up SMOKIN FAST, it blows away my p4 box, makes it feel like a p3 lol
anyway, just my personal amd64 testomony

apu318 · Apr 19, 2005

Great! Thanks for the reply. Just what I was hoping to hear.

eNightmare · Apr 19, 2005

Knoppix has NTFS-Captive on it....

apu318 · Apr 19, 2005

Yeah I was playing around with it. I found it on Auditor. I tried to get it going but it couldnt find any NTFS partitions for some reason. I couldnt mount them manually either.

eNightmare · Apr 19, 2005

apu318 said:
Yeah I was playing around with it. I found it on Auditor. I tried to get it going but it couldnt find any NTFS partitions for some reason. I couldnt mount them manually either.

knoppix will automatically mount them for you...

did you get any kind of an error message/

CrashOveride · Apr 19, 2005

Although it's not easy to set up I'd bet gentoo is the best distro for new linux users! You learn soo much!

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