I've just learned about the awesome world of Bitcoins. I've learned that the only way to make a decent amount of bitcoins is to "mine". However, everywhere I look, the miners are for Windows and those that have clients for Linux only support 32bit.
I'd like to be able to mine off my GPU (if possible). I have an ATI graphics card (I've heard there isn't much support for ATI, only Nvidia).
Here is a list of the currently available miners. Most of them support Linux:
Taken from here. Personally, I am using the GUI minner (which has the poclbm backend). It was easy to setup and it's running fine at Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit with an ATI card.
In my experience, Linux is far better supported by the Bitcoin community than Windows is. The same goes for ATI vs. Nvidia; ATI cards are far better at doing the calculations required for mining bitcoins, so all the serious miners use them. 32 vs. 64 bit should also be a non-issue; just pick the 64-bit version of the AMD Stream SDK instead of the 32-bit version.
Here's a guide for setting up the Phoenix and poclbm miners on Ubuntu 11.04. Setup should be roughly similar on other distributions.
