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| Where can I find the existing kernel configuration (2.6.8-1-386)? er.. /boot can't remember the file name from memory tho... plain text file tho...
For me the currently running config is in /proc/config.gz but i've no idea if that's a SUSE specific thing...
| Are there any recommendations that people would offer? Use a 64bit distro if i were you.. you shelled out for a 64bit CPU.. may as well use it.. I will be going down the Stage 1 gentoo 64bit route... think it will run Doom 2 ?
Hmmm, my personal opinion after having just gone down this tortuous route is to not bother unless you REALLY enjoy torturing yourself! Gentoo 64bit is not ready for the big time just yet unless you fancy your hand at fixing problems and giving back your fixes to gentoo64 (i don't know enough about the 64bit environment to do that just yet - which COULD actually be part of my downfall there). Don't get me wrong, i think gentoo is brilliant and am running it on my Athlon XP based server still but on amd64 it very quickly got itself in a mess that took me a long time to get out of. For two weeks i couldn't even compile anything which meant not being able to add any packages. YMMV as they say. I don't really know what i would recommend TBH. I've fallen out of love with Mandrake, SUSE is superb but i had to go and download a bunch of unoffical suse packages to get multimedia working properly (not because of lack of codecs, i can live with that, they actually compiled up xinelibs and kaffeine et al WITHOUT support for the codecs so just adding codecs didn't help) and as i say, gentoo was a tortuous nightmare that i don't wish to repeat in a hurry on this 64bit box. <RANT>Sidenote, when you're paying £60 for SUSE, fine they can choose not to ship it with DVD playback and certain codecs, Microsoft do that too but DONT cripple it to make life harder for anyone to add it afterwards!</RANT> I think this is just 64bit computing for you though. At the end of the day, Microsoft doesn't even HAVE 64 bit Windows for the masses yet. It ships with MSDN in June so linux is definately one-up on that. I guess it's just the pain you have to go through :) Unfortunately my enthusiasm for the whole thing is a little muted. I went from Athlon XP2000+ with 512mb ram and standard ide drive to AMD64 3200+ with 1GB ram and an SATA drive and i have to say, the difference is really not all that noticable. Most people i discussed it with beforehand suggested the difference would be vast. Never mind eh! These are obviously just my opinions. Martin.
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