Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Feb 2006 18:17 UTC
"The Fedora Project announces the third release of the Fedora Core 5 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and PPC/PPC64 architectures. Beware that Test releases are recommended only for Linux experts/enthusiasts or for technology evaluation, as many parts are likely to be broken and the rate of change is rapid." The final release is planned for March 15th. Release notes will be uploaded soon, and download locations are listed in the release announcement.
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2006-01-20
I bought a new Athlon64 X2 machine last christmas and i run Debian Amd64 on it.
(come on just joking...)
I don't specially like the approach of Fedora, SuSE, MDK and many other distros of the mixed lib32/lib64 system.
I think the chroot/dchroot solution of Debian (and Ubuntu) is much cleaner (and less prone to mixing stuff that is not supposed to be mixed) although i can see that this solution is less immediate to the new user.
I am 100% happy with my AMD64 Sid machine: i know now someone will come out saying "oh but you don't have OO.o, win32 codecs and blah blah" but I really recommend it to anybody with a 64bit machine.
Btw, don't expect miracles of speed. Many applications have really no idea on how to use the 64bit extensions, they just build correctly. Which is something that took windows a couple of years to do