Bug#340298: www.debian.org/ports unclear about ia64
> Without further any warning/information about that other 64bit architecture
> intel, amd etc are producing: amd64. A *lot* of people try to use ia64
> installation media to install Debian on their Opteron's etc, and then mail
> (for example) debian-cd that the cd is broken and doesn't boot.
I am not disputing that the wording can be improved, but please note:
> The paragraph in question could and IMHO should be more elaborate, like,
> saying it's Intel *alpha* 64, aka Itanium,
What is "Intel alpha 64"? I've never heard of such a thing :-)
ia64 != Itanium, just as Linux != RedHat.
> The fact that i386 is also called ia32 above, without any introduction to
> what ia32 means, isn't helping at all of course. If it doesn't serve
> anything, I strongly suggest to drop the name of 'ia-32', I've never
> heard of it before, while eh, I've been an i386 users for quite some time.
Well, ia32 is a very common name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32
randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
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