I am going to recieve in the next couple of weeks a laptop that I bought that has an AMD 64-bit processor in it. It will come with M$ Home of course but I was considering wiping that and putting 64-bit Linux on it to get use of the 64-bit part. Are all the programs on Suse 9.3 Pro 64-bit really 64 bit? Is it worth it to switch or not really yet since not many programs are actually 64-bit. Also, I don't have a DVD burner, is the 64-bit version available on CD anywhere? I haven't ever seen it on CD but I don't know why it wouldn't be, too big?

Well, I know it's on DVD anyway. As to whether it's worth it, I know a few things aren't in 64 bit yet on some distros (win32codecs for instance)...so it might and then again it might not be....

SuSE 64-bit is a hybrid (as most of 64-bit linux distros), this means that you can run either 64-bit or 32-bit software on it. For the laptop 64-bit may be better because you will not have slowdowns caused by disk encryption (if you are planning to use it). The only real problem is that you have to use 64-bit drivers, so if there is no 64-bit version driver for your wireles network card then you will have to search for something that will have 64-bit drivers.

On SuSE DVD you have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Try and see what is better for you.

Not if you want to run apache it doesn't work on the 9.3.

When are they going to fix this?