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12-03-2008, 06:54 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2008
Location: Cincinnati, Oh
Distribution: Xubuntu on USB-live
Posts: 8
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Best recommended Distro for AMD64 athelon X2...
1) What would be the best recommended Distro for AMD64 athelon X2cpu, MSI motherboard, 1MB Ram, 250gbHD split into 125gb partitions, part1 winXP, part2 ???Linux Distro (as recommended), 1DVD & 1cdROM, 1usb 8gb pendrive.
2) Can a distro say..Kubuntu be uninstalled after its made its own third partition in the example above, the NEW distro re-installed??
Thanks for any suggestions, Dandy1  
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12-03-2008, 07:41 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 and CentOS 5.5
Posts: 3,873
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I'm using AMD and Intel processors. I don't think that any distribution is better on one brand or model of CPU than others. I recommend that you choose a distribution based on the look-and-feel and any other preferences that you may have.
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12-03-2008, 07:49 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: midwest USA
Distribution: gentoo w/ funtoo overlay
Posts: 146
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2) yes it can...just pay attention to your partitioning during install
1) It's all about choice and what you like. I have basically the same hardware here (ati x1600 graphics card, and then the rest) and haven't run into problems. I'm using sidux, sabayon is good, but I don't recommend sab if you're new or don't have patience. Ubuntu just plain crashed me all the time, nothing against Ubuntu, that's just how it worked out. But there are a plethora of others to choose from. Sidux works for me, but you may not like it.
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12-03-2008, 07:52 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,836
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As stress_junkie advised, it doesn't matter because all (a great majority of?) distros offer 64-bit versions.
I don't think you can 'uninstall' any system. You just format a given partition (wiping out the system) or install
a new system (on the same partition as the old one) and again you need to format it to prepare the partition for the installation of a new system.
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12-04-2008, 04:01 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Ribeirão Pret City, SP State, Brazil
Distribution: Sabayon, Gentoo, Mandriva
Posts: 3
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any distro runs
This hardware is the same of mine.
its powerfull.
all distros can runs..
i use: Sabayon, Gentoo, Mandriva, but any Linux should run well.
Gentoo based distros (Sabayon, Gentoo, VidaLinux, Tutoo, Pentoo,Luna, Librix, Litrix) are advantageous, because are compilation distros that will be fully optimized for the AMD MAchine.
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