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Re: Opteron support in dpkg



On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:42:36AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> >> isn't braindead. - and _ in the name are not acceptable from a
> >> technical point.
> >
> > I'm not sure it makes sense.  I have an Athlon64.  Why would I assume
> > that something named "opteron" would work for me?  To me, that seems
> > similar to naming something "pentium-ii".
> 
> Oh yeah. Debian-Athlon(tm)64. The tradename is even shown in
> /proc/cpuinfo. :-P  Lets see how they like that.

<grin>

I can imagine:

cdebootstrap -a Debian-Athlon\(tm\)64 ....

-- John



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