Hi,
I'm doubting about wich version i would take in fedora core 6, I'm new to linux but, windows xp64bit version has a big disadvantage like the software incompatibilty, is that the same on linux or should I take the 64bit version? Just to know I did this test and fedora, suse and ubuntu were the best for me (test on internet), fedora looks the best to me, is this a recommeded distro to choose as nebie to linux, I read a couple of tutorials about how installing usin yum and it seems fun to me installing in a turminal unlikely windows

It would be a big help if you answered especially on the x64 or x86 question. I also would appreciate if someone could tell me if this indeed is a good startng distro.

Kind greets,
Jonas

Welcome to Linux!!!

64-bit Linux is really nice, but does have a few draw backs still. Mostly with third party stuff, Adobe flash and reader applications along with some other things (no 64-bit support yet). Some (like me) choose to run the 32-bit versions of fireox and mplayer as a workaround to these minor issues.

By default getting the 32-bit versions installed are not hard, one just needs to specify the version. With firefox one removes the 64-bit versin and installs the 32-bit version;

yum remove firefox
yum install firefox.i386

For mplayer (nice for watching videos on the Internet and locally) one again specifies after adding a third party repo like freshrpms.net ( http://zod.freshrpms.net/ );

yum install mplayer.i386 mplayerplug-in.i386

The mplayerplug-in works with firefox and mplayer so one can watch Internet videos.

The choice is yours, many use the 32-bit version and many use the 64-bit version. if you are just starting out then the 32-bit version is the better of the two choices. Any of the Linux versions you mentioned are god for beginners. Since you like fedora Core best then use it, myself I prefer the more stable choices of RHEL or CentOS. Both are almost exactly like Fedora Core except they are more for stability instead of leading edge, CentOS is a freely available version of RHEL. Both RHEL5 and CentOS5 are based on the work done for Fedora Core 6.

You can use nspluginwrapper to use the 32 bit plugins for your browser so the biggest disadvantage to using 64 bit is taken care of.

If you have a 64 bit processor then install the 64 bit version. You can easily work around any minor problems.