Off-topic? X-Accept-Language: header (was: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture)

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mike White: [snip] Point of order: what is the point of that ten mile long "X-Accept-Language:" header of yours? Is there any plausible reason for all of that? Just wondering since I've never seen that done before, and you must be one primo linguist if all that's real. -- Any t

Re: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture

2004-11-12 Thread Mike White
Ron Johnson wrote: One thing that jumps right out is that the w32 codecs needed by mplayer, avifile-win32-plugin, etc are still 32 bit. Documentation for running those 32 bit binaries in a 32 bit chroot system is available. Runs flawlessly on my pure amd 64 ubuntu system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture

2004-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 22:46 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:57:51 -0800 (PST), Ibrahim Mubarak > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Do mind though that there are still a few software that has yet to be > ported to native AMD64 and/or has some issues with pure 64bit. Cav

Re: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture

2004-11-11 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:57:51 -0800 (PST), Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an AMD 64 [Socket 754] processor. However, I installed Debian Sarge > for the x86 > architecture. Is it best to stay like this, or to change to a 64 bit one? As > I was told that the > x86 kerne

Re: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture

2004-11-10 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:57:51 -0800 (PST), Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an AMD 64 [Socket 754] processor. However, I installed Debian Sarge > for the x86 > architecture. Is it best to stay like this, or to change to a 64 bit one? As > I was told that the > x86 kerne

[Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture

2004-11-10 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, I have an AMD 64 [Socket 754] processor. However, I installed Debian Sarge for the x86 architecture. Is it best to stay like this, or to change to a 64 bit one? As I was told that the x86 kernel is optimized for the Hammer processor. And if I want to change, is it enough to compile a kernel