Distro for AMD

Kevin Jamieson derf at sonic.net
Sun Aug 5 00:32:38 PDT 2001


On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:00:22PM -0700, Rafe Magnuson wrote:
> Hey Greg,
> 
> Forget RedHat! Get Slackware 8 - I run a K6-2 400 with Slack 8, the 2.4.5
> kernel and ReiserFS, and it SCREAMS. Not to mention it's the most stable
> distro I've worked with yet (tried suse, rh, debian, and freebsd - slack
> is still the most flexible and still rock solid).

The only advice I would give if you chose the FreeBSD route is to pay
attention VERY CAREFULLY to the partitioning process - for those used to
just using disk druid, it can be confusing.  

Derf



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