Whats a simple to install and reliable FREE Linux OS with a wide range of supporting drivers for a FIRST TIME Linux install on a PC wtih a 64 bit AMD proc and 512-768 Mb RAM and a decent vid card?
Whats a simple to install and reliable FREE Linux OS with a wide range of supporting drivers for a FIRST TIME Linux install on a PC wtih a 64 bit AMD proc and 512-768 Mb RAM and a decent vid card?
OpenSuSE is kewl http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-current/iso/
http://gnuman.com/content/view/61/28/
If you want something stable ( and several versions behind ) for server use check out CentOS http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.3/isos/x86_64/
Be sure to check out: http://distrowatch.com/
A good x86_64 distribution can run 64bit and 32bit code and can also run other operating systems using VMWare, QEMU, DOSBox, WINE, Cedega and many others.
Linux can also emulate other architectures such as Power PC, ARM, Sparc, Commodore 64 and many others as well as game consoles (Nintendo, Sega and others).
Whatever Linux cannot run natively it can run in a Virtual Machine or in an emulator.