Re: Status of debian-amd64 after sarge release
Bob Proulx wrote:
[snip]
Because Ubuntu is based on Debian all of this work is directly
benefiting that project. And they have released amd64 and are
supporting it. Therefore if you need a released and supported
environment for amd64 then Ubuntu is probably the answer.
Not if you wish to have a gcc-3.4 environment, as I want.
However I am sticking with "pure" Debian for the moment. I have not
yet given up on it. I am using everyone's work hosted on Alioth. I
will probably deploy an unofficial 'Sarge' on amd64 in a production
environment. Eventually an official Debian 'Etch' will replace it.
That will probably take around 2-3 years before that happens which means
all other major distrubtions will probably already have both an
gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0 amd64 port. I really like Debian but the release
process seems to be very slow, if not too slow. Is Debian stable even
keeping up with hardware advances? Is it even possible to install stable
on a new computer and will it take advantage of hardware advances like
SATA, Gigaethernet and so on so forth? Ok, enough ranting :)
/Johan
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