Re: Debian AMD64 Port Ready

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Chris Cheney may or may not have written...

[snip]
> Of course Debian will be useless usability wise if sarge does not ship with
> AMD64 arch support since by 2007 (sarge+1) all desktop systems will be
> AMD64/EM64T/IA32E based.

(Assuming that you mean "all _new_ desktop systems".)

So you're saying that production of (say) XScale-based desktop boxes will
*definitely* cease within 2.5 years or so?

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