Re: Another status update
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:44:18 -0600
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to your help with postgresql and db4.2, more progress has been
> made. The pure64 port has now surpassed the 50% mark. That means
> that over 50% of the architecture-specific debs have now been built.
> Right now, there are 4710 debs in the repository.
>
> From memory, the following languages are now supported: C C++ ObjC
> Java Assembler Tcl Perl Python Ruby OCaml CommonLisp Shell.
>
> Parts of Gnome exist in the repository. The full XFCE desktop
> environment appears to be present, as are X servers. It should
> theoretically be possible to get a working X environment on this thing
> at this point.
>
I wouldn't worry too much about waiting round for 32 bit applications to
catch up to 64 bit platform format.
Some of them will be there before you, and the rest will soon catch up:-
http://www.wolfram.com/news/amd64.html
Regards,
David.
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