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x86-64 Slackware Clone Released

Posted by timothy on from the uniformity-in-diversity dept.

Rob_Ogilvie points out that another distribution for x86-64 (AKA AMD64) has been released: "This time it's Slamd64. Slamd64 10.1 is based off Slackware 10.1. Developer Fred Emmott ported Slackware to AMD64 in his spare time, trying to keep the distribution as close to Slackware proper as possible (even keeping binary compatibility for many existing packages). Finally x86-64 users have some real viable choices out there!"

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  1. Good things are happening in the world of PC OSes. by CyricZ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The past few weeks have been fantastic for PC operating system developments. Between the new Fedora release, this, the release of open source Solaris, the release of FreeBSD 5.4, Mac OS X on Intel machines, and the upcoming release of BeOS, things have really been happening at an amazing pace. We are truly coming up to a time of great innovation and change in the PC desktop/workstation landscape.

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    Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
  2. Re:Finally we have choices? by repruhsent · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and it's STILL compiling!