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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:04:00 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions
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> To which, on 11/22/2011 11:00 AM, erik quanstrom responded:
> > today's nix is quite raw.  unless you're working on nix itself,
> > you'll be happier with plan 9.
>
> Is NIX the only distribution for amd64, then?  I just want to play
> around in user space: learn Go, use Unicode in C, &c., &c.  Would I be
> better off using a 32-bit distro?

nix runs in x86_64 long mode, the others do not.  everything should
run on amd64 hardware and accomplish what you're after, though.

- erik