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MyLinuxNews: 64 Bit Linux–Just for Geeks?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 20, 2004

“Lets get serious about one thing that’s really taken the
enthusiast market by storm lately. 64bit computing. It’s the holy
grail of any power gamer and budding programmer who wish to extend
their knowledge and skills into the realms of 64bit and all the
promise it offers.

“My focus is on Linux and the desktop versions that run on 64bit
platforms such as AMD’s Opteron and Intel’s IA64 based processors.
The 3 distros I’ll be talking about are Fedora Core 2, Gentoo
2004.1, and Suse 9.1 Professional. While all are great packages
they each leave much room for improvement with issues shared
between them and things that are not so common…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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