Hiya Cuddles!

As for *nix's native 64-bit support I believe it precedes what we know as linux. Solaris (no?) was/is a 64bit environment. As was HP's True(64?).

I am not sure about Linux's 64 bit entry being SUSE (close - maybe Redhat who I don't care for and call the Linuxofthenorthpole- Bill Gate's next purchase if you ask me)

I was close to building a an AMD64 just two weeks ago. Have since been given notice on my temp job and happy to be with my crappola little XP1500 (yeah, he is getting a bit sluggish but I don't have any options at present, and hey, OO is still 32bit, isn't it?)