What flavor of linux for AMD64 bit

[Ramlaen]

whats the best version of linux for the new amd64bit cpu's

 

[{PMS}fishy]

Best = Gentoo.

I still think that its all beta and its not fully stable. Im not sure, no A64, and I have not be following up on the 64bit AMD OS options.

I do know that Mandrake also has a 64bit OS out for the AMD, its easy to install and worth a shot.

 

[dropadrop]

Fedora has an A64 version out, but the best is still Gentoo. Might take a bit of tweaking (and asking / searching at the forums) to get started but it's worth it.

 

[Christoph]

This is a little dated, but would make a good starting point. Make sure to read the comments too. LWN is a high-quality Linux news site, and the comments usually reflect that.

 

[darthdana]

Suse 9.1 64 bit, works fine, with both nvidia 150 and 250 chipsets.

 

[XWRed1]

I still think that its all beta and its not fully stable. Im not sure, no A64, and I have not be following up on the 64bit AMD OS options

I ran 64-bit Gentoo on my A64 before I sold it, it was perfectly stable.

 

[Arkaine23]

We used Suse enterpise where I worked on our AMD64 duallies.

 

[YetAnotherNoob]

i read on distrowatch, that yober(yoper???spelling???) was optimized for 64bit.

 

[Sa3atsky]

Suse is the most popular right now.. I'm seeing 64bit versions flying everywhere.. But for me I prefer using Gentoo

 

[Malakai]

Gentoo using nptl, gcc 3.4.1, kernel-2.6.7, and the newest glibc, in pure 64-bit mode (you need a nvidia card for this, ati has no 64-bit drivers) is as good as it gets. The newest gcc (3.4.1) makes a world of difference in both compile time and speed of the resulting binaries, and ntpl is damn nice for a number of apps that use it (especially java apps).

 

[injinj]

The newest gcc (3.4.1) makes a world of difference in both compile time and speed of the resulting binaries

Yeah, first time I've seen gcc outperform icc (Intel's compiler) albeit stuck in 32 bit mode and only on AMD chips... go gcc go. I'm eagerly awaiting icc64, should be interesting.