Ubuntu has one as well, and is very desktop friendly http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/releases/warty/ On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Eric "Shubes" wrote: > Craig Brooksby wrote: > > > > Here's a dumb question for you hard core Linux types: I am a "Desktop > > Joe" running Simply Mepis on an Athlon 64 box I just built. I assume > > that Mepis treats it as a generic X86 processor. > > I don't know, but that would be my guess too. > > > So: do I need to / > > should I recompile from source, in order to gain what -- performance? > > stability? I have looked, but haven't found resources relating > > specifically to Linux and Athlon 64 so perhaps it's a non issue. Any > > advice will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks -- > > > > (the other) Craig > > Recompiling the kernel source isn't trivial (unless of course you've > done it once or twice). To KISS, I'd try a distro that is precompiled > for the AMD64, such as Fedora Core 3 at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > "There is no such thing as the People; > it is a collectivist myth. > There are only individual citizens > with individual wills > and individual purposes." > -William E. Simon (1927-2000), > Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) > "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss