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Best Linux Platforms
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:17 pm
by piranha
Does anyone here know what the best platform for Linux is?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:29 pm
by Alboin
What do you mean by platform? x86? Debian?
Re: Best Linux Platforms
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:45 pm
by Twitch
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:40 am
by piranha
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...)?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:13 am
by Alboin
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:57 pm
by Twitch
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:01 pm
by Alboin
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:17 pm
by Twitch
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.
Yeah
I guess i just i'm just mad because it gave me trouble with skype.
Distro................?
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:12 am
by DeletedAccount
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.....)