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Re: amd64 and sarge



On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> Not adding pure64 at all is not very suitable for much more of our
> users than those two or three who want to run non-DFSG-free software,

Do you have any reliable statistics ? And this is not only a non-DFSG
issue.

32-64 bit migration has many drawbacks, and is not something that most
administrators will do directly. You can't migrate a regular production
server on 64 bit in one step.

Oh, do you remember the Itanium fiasco and its "pure 64 bit" architecture?



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