[LBo] How to installl linux to Pentium D

[Lonnie Mullenix]

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 13:57 +0000, Ali Metin wrote:
> INTEL PENTIUM D 945 3.4GHz LGA775 800MHz
> HT 2x2MB PR DUAL COREASUS
>   P5B DELUXE P965 LGA 775 CORE2 DUO COMPATIBLE MOTHERBOARD2 x 1GB DDR2 RAMI have a box like this. I want to install a linux distro and kernel (which benefits more from this box) .But I dont know which. What do you suggest?


HI Ali,

It pretty much depends on how Linux savvy you are.  I have been running
64 bit Gentoo on an AMD system for about a year or a bit longer.

Red Hat is supposed to support 64bit, SuSE will support 64bit, etc.  The
other side of that coin is that a 64bit processor will run a 32 bit
system too, so, it is really up to you which system you want to install.

SuSE is very nice, it is a little slow(YAST is a horrible resource hog)
and some of us(Jisao) really like Kanotix.  These are easy to install
and easy to use.

Gentoo, on the other hand, it a Royal PITA to install(you seriously HAVE
to follow the instructions), but Very nice to maintain and use once it
is installed.

I have heard that some of the Red Hat clones are rather nice, a few of
the Debian clones are not behaving very well at the moment, etc.  Debian
itself is a bit tricky to install, but again, very easy to maintain once
up and running.

And, about all of them are 64bit ready so you can use the full potential
of that processor or you can install a 32bit version and have much
better stability.  Non of the major Linux's are 100% ready for 64bit,
but they are getting there.  If you do decide to run 64bit, you can
expect to have things break or be broken once in a while, get fixed and
maybe break again.

Heh, you only have about 100+ options for your distro.  :-)

Hope that helps.

Later,

Lonnie
-- 
Running Gentoo and
Debian, enjoying the
MS free life on the
internet.