I am going to be upgrading my Athlon XP workstation (running Debian/unstable) to an Athlon 64 in the next week or so. I am trying to decide whether to use the AMD64 port or to stick with the IA32 port. According to the FAQ at https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html: - For servers, it is roughly as stable as i386 sid is, lacking some unported applications like Java. - For workstations, some applications have problems - most notably mozilla and its derivatives, and Openoffice.org porting efforts have just begun. However, a growing number of people use this port on their desktop system, and are really happy with it. I occasionally use Java, I don't use Openoffice, and I regularly use Firefox. Finally, I use VMWare a lot, primarily to run Windows XP, and occasionally other x86 operating systems (Win2K, Debian/Woody, etc.). Based on that information, is Debian-AMD64 the right choice for me today, or should I wait a few more months? I am an experienced Unix/Linux admin, so things like chroots don't worry me. I'm fairly certain that I could run VMWare in a chroot if I needed to, but it's the Mozilla issues (whatever they are) that really worry me; I really don't want to run a core application like that in a chroot. Thanks for any input, -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA dave@rudedog.org | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dave is currently listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival - Hey Tonight (Chronicle)
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