* Pete Harlan (harlan@artselect.com) wrote: > > what I said. Every user of such a system will more than likely also need or > > want to run a 32bit binary on such a machine at some stage, and it is just too > > restrictive not to be able to do that. It is clear that you want to run 64bit > > whenever you can, but you won't always be able to. > > Some people (myself) want one to run 64-bit only, and will never need > to run a 32-bit binary. I imagine a lot of people are in the same > boat I am: I have a db server, and I'm buying an Opteron to take > advantage of a huge flat memory space. I couldn't care less that it's > theoretically capable of 32-bit mode. To some extent I'm in this same camp. Sure, the 32-bit stuff would be nice but if we could get Debian going, even if it's 64-bit only, I'd be *very* happy. The alternatives right now aren't exactly spectacular. Stephen
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