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Re: How does Athlon 64 compare under linux to Pentiums ?



On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:23 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> A friend of mine wants to build a system with:
> 
> 1) Athlon 64 3500+
> 
> 2) DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR (nVidia nFroce4 chipset IIRC)
> 
> How do these critters fare under Linux ?

Sounds like a winner to me.  Go read, though, the debian-amd64
archives.  Anything that's tied[1] to 32 bits won't be able to 
run, or will have to run a chroot.  There are supposed to be simple
instructions to do this, but I've never seen them.

[1] A partial list.  You may not care about any or all of them.
ndiswrapper
w32codecs
OpenOffice.org 1.1
Acroread
Shockwave Plugin
Java Plugin for Mozilla
Wine/Crossover Office.
Certain binary NIC & wireless drivers

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