Has anyone had experience with Slackware 10.x on AMD64
Just saw this thread: my 2 cents worth for posterity.
I run a 3 boot system: MSDOS, Win2Ksp4, Slack10. Formerly this was my venerable slot a Athlon800 VIA KX133 512MB G4ti4800. Well, on day the AOPEN AK72 mb went flaky: memory could only run at 100MHz, intermittent hd paging etc errors. So I prepped win2k for the new mb (default Win2k drivers etc) after a big drive scare (thought I lost my 40GB data drive) but left DOS and Slack alone.
Athlon64 3000+ skt 939 90nm Gigabyte GA-k8ns-939 Mushkin PC3200 DDR400 512MB
all else the same. Well, to make a long story more tedious ;-) Win2k was toast. DOS was fine and Slack was perfect. I used Slack to recover some data off the Win2k ntfs parbreastion (emails, some prog settings, save games, etc), then wiped the winders part and loaded WinXP for fun.
The point is: Slack, or linux, wasn't fazed by the AMD64 and mb swap and fired up like nothing happened (except a mbuttive speed boost!). So, although i didn't "install" it on AMD64, the previous install works perfectly.
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Now to stfu the rest about my OS choices: 1. DOS - old games, various command line tools for hardware diag, and nostalgia 2. WinXP - wife, kids, games, web dev, various office-science apps and to keep an eye on M$ tech to see if it does anything interesting. 3. Slack - computer science learning tool, C etc, keep up with the "next big think" various apps and tools. Does the same stuff and more as XP, and I can fool around with it without freaking the wife (eek! you changed something?!?!?!)
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