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Does anyone here know what the best platform for Linux is?
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What do you mean by platform? x86? Debian?
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Re: Best Linux Platforms

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piranha wrote:Does anyone here know what the best platform for Linux is?
You mean distro??? in that case it's all preference.If you are a beginner try open suse or ubuntu.
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No I do not mean distro.
I am just asking: is there a best computer architecture (sorry, I was tired when I wrote 'platforms') to run Linux (x86, x86_64...)?
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Linux runs on nearly everything. x86 (32 and 64 bit.), SPARC, ARM, etc.

I don't think you can really say which platform is best.
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Yeah I think the whole point is its the same pretty much.But x86 is the most used by far.I have used 64 but there isn't as many packages yet for it.
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Twitch wrote:Yeah I think the whole point is its the same pretty much.But x86 is the most used by far.I have used 64 but there isn't as many packages yet for it.
From my experience the packages are about the same. Nothing too major. (Like KDE or GNOME.) It's usually just the smaller unmaintained packages.
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Alboin wrote:
Twitch wrote:Yeah I think the whole point is its the same pretty much.But x86 is the most used by far.I have used 64 but there isn't as many packages yet for it.
From my experience the packages are about the same. Nothing too major. (Like KDE or GNOME.) It's usually just the smaller unmaintained packages.
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Distro................?

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As far as distro's are concerned : Slackware simply rocks!!!!!
But when it comes to hardware platform .. GNU Linux was
initially meant to run on x86 later got ported to ther
platfroms as well .... Now the desgin seems to favor the Alpha
family ... (3 level paging etc.....)
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