On (09/05/06 16:39), David A. Parker wrote: > >Been running Sarge for a year on a genuine AMD Opteron. Have Debian > >unstable on several Opterons, a dual Xeon and Pentium D. The Pentium D > >"feels" faster but may have a faster clock speed / dynamically faster > >memory / peripherals. Not been running these for very long at all - but > >no obvious problems. > > > >AMD64 - no problem :) The caveat is what level of package churn you can > >tolerate - unstable moves very quickly, testing less so, stable hardly > >at all. Pick one and stick with it :) > > > >Andy > > Thanks for the info! That leads me to my next question... > > Have most packages been ported to the amd64 architecture, or is there a > limited selection? I found the amd64 "testing" version here: > > http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/images/ > > But I wasn't sure if most packages had been ported to use the 64-bit OS.
I run sid amd64 but I guess the issues are similar. Openoffice runs in a 32bit chroot as does Firefox (if you want flash capability). There are unofficial OOo ports for amd64 but I haven't tried them. see: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id220463 Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
