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On Monday 10 April 2006 9:15 pm, Steve Marvell wrote: > Has anyone got any horror stories about linux on AMD64 in 64 or 32 bit > mode? > > Steve No horror stories but I do have got some good news on amd64 - Debian wise: amd64 is now included in Debian unstable and will soon be in testing too. Users of unstable on amd64 are encouraged to change their /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a Debian mirror now. Users of testing need to wait a bit more, until Debian testing includes enough amd64 packages. That should be soon Users of stable: *NOTHING* changes. This means that amd64 will soon be a fully supported Debian architecture and should have suitable packages available within the same timeframe after upload as i386, sparc, alpha and other platforms. It will also mean that FTBFS bugs on amd64 (Fail To Build From Source) become just as important as FTBFS bugs on i386 and will stop the package moving into testing (or etch) in the same way. Previously, the lack of an amd64 binary for a package was just ignored as amd64 wasn't keeping up. This should mean that testing is a reliable Debian install for amd64. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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