OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Aaron Grewell wrote:

> I've got an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI board with an AMD64 3500+ chip.
> The video card is an NVidia 6600GT PCIe.  I've got a 250GB SATA drive
> and a DVD burner in there as well.  Suse 9.3 would install but would not
> boot, it just hung.  Ubuntu booted OK but I had a lot of app crashes and
> general instability.  Both were 64-bit distros, so I was tempted to use
> a 32-bit version and see what happened but it seemed like a waste of a
> 64-bit chip.  WinXP 32 works fine, and since this box is mostly used for
> gaming I haven't taken the time to dig into the issues.  Given a custom
> kernel I'm sure Suse would have booted OK.  The app issues in Ubuntu
> were also probably not unfixable I just got lazy and decided to wait
> until the 64-bit distributions stabilized a bit.  I think all this easy
> distribution stuff has spoiled me, I don't expect to have to fight with
> hardware anymore. :)

I think Gentoo were one of the first distros with 64bit support so I
imagine their current 64bit LiveCDs are more stable than most.



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