Re: Current Debian Distro On amd64 processors

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Chris Dean" <chris@christopher-dean.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone ever had any problems running the current (32-bit) stable release
> on any of amd's 64 bit processors?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Chris

Woody works fine, even with a 64 bit kernel. Sarge/sid doesn't work
with a 64 bit kernel due to some bugs in the 32 bit emulation.
You can still use sarge with a 64 bit kernel but some things fail in
strange ways, like df. Hopefully this will be fixed one of these days.

When running a 32 bit kernel the only problem you should have is the
age of stable. You might have to update the kernel for some newer
drivers.

MfG
        Goswin