Ubuntu has one as well, and is very desktop friendly
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/releases/warty/ 


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> Craig Brooksby wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a dumb question for you hard core Linux types:  I am a "Desktop
> > Joe" running Simply Mepis on an Athlon 64 box I just built.  I assume
> > that Mepis treats it as a generic X86 processor.
> 
> I don't know, but that would be my guess too.
> 
> > So: do I need to /
> > should I recompile from source, in order to gain what -- performance? 
> > stability?  I have looked, but haven't found resources relating
> > specifically to Linux and Athlon 64 so perhaps it's a non issue.  Any
> > advice will be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks -- 
> > 
> > (the other) Craig
> 
> Recompiling the kernel source isn't trivial (unless of course you've 
> done it once or twice). To KISS, I'd try a distro that is precompiled 
> for the AMD64, such as Fedora Core 3 at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/
> 
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
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>   it is a collectivist myth.
>   There are only individual citizens
>   with individual wills
>   and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>      Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>   "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
> 
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