Thanks for your response. Please see below. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:48:46PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Saturday 08 July 2006 12:09, Art Edwards wrote: > > I have been writing to the list about two applications that > > are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the > > box pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measly > > applications are no big deal. However, if you do scientific computation > > for a living, and two of the primary tools are broken, you now have > > a rather clumsy paperweight where a computer should be. You could > > argue that we should simply learn new tools, and we could, but we > > should really be doing science instead. > > Could you please be a bit more specific? Which two applications are you > talking about? > xmgrace (package name grace) and ddd. For both it is not possible to enter text into their console, or into the pop-up windows (xmgrace).
> As a side note, there is no stable release of debian for amd64 architecture. > Your criticism would be justified if you see the above mentioned problems in > a stable release of Debian. Please see http://www.debian.org/ports/ for a > list of architectures supported by Debian. If you are using testing/unstable > distributions, the applications are bound to break sooner or later. > Your point is well taken. I have just posted something about this. Because there is no stable AMD64 release for Debian, we are at the mercy of a moving target. Interestingly, Fedora Core has exactly the same problems in a nominally stable release. > thanks > raju > > -- > http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar > http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
