Well...there are now some free distros for x86_64, after trying pretty much all of them I've settled for Mandrake. I haven't had any major problems (yet), and the machine will quite happily run 32/64 programs...I can compile programs as 32/64 using gcc/g++ (or pgcc/pgCC)....pretty much how it should be!
John
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