* Raul Miller (moth@debian.org) wrote: > Those are two reasons. > > Unfortunately, the current debian amd64 port doesn't look like it supports > cedega (forinstance). It does support a number of commercial binaries though already, for those that need them. Many of us don't. > More generally, by not providing 32 bit support, we're reducing the > bang/buck ratio. Not by much considering the only place this is really a problem is where you need both 32bit and 64bit applications running at the same time and interoperating with each other - rather rare in *reality*. > > It currently looks like ia32 will be replaced by amd64/ia32e as both > > AMD64 and intel are changing the products and adding the > > 64-bit extension does not seem to be very expensive for the CPU > > manufacturers. > > Agreed. And, Debian's amd64 currently isn't positioned to be useful in > this sense. Not positioned to be useful? Where the hell do you get that idea from? Do you even *use* Debian? Do you realize that 97% (or whatever) of Debian is already *available* on Debian's amd64? Stephen
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