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Re: List split?



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote :

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:09:19AM +0100, James Titcumb wrote:
> &gt; Debian-amd64 is still not an official debian port is it?? I was under 
> &gt; that impression... so surely until it *does* become official, it'll just
> 
> &gt; stay like this?
> &gt; 
> &gt; Tell me if I'm wrong, or been living under a rock for 20 years :)
> 
> I don't think it matters that much... questions about setting up KDE,
> Gnome, networking, etc. are going to be pretty much the same regardless
> of what Debian platform one is using, and even though amd64 is not yet
> &quot;official&quot;, it is, for all practical purposes, Debian.
> 
> -- John

Wouldn't it be slightly different for each arch though? In my experience for example, setting up nVidia drivers was completely different for amd64 as it was for x86... i.e. x86 you could install the nvidia drivers using the install script from the nvidia website, and on amd64 you have to compile a kernel module yourself.

On the other hand of course, it could be "generalized", as Debian has it's own heavily modified version of Gnome doesn't it? Therefore the amd64 will be based on the x86 version anyway (afaik, most, if not all packages on amd64 are based on x86.).

I'm not entirely in the know about everything though, so that's just my view/opinion/whatever you like to call it :)

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