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Re: AMD64 show stoppers



On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:42:20AM -0600, Stephen Olander Waters wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 19:42 -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> > But the biggest problem for me is that there isn't a AMD64 nvu package. The author abandoned 
> > it to work on a replacement package, but in the mean time there isn't a good WYSIWYG html 
> > editor for web development.  (Sorry, but quanta just isn't in the same league and OO makes 
> > bloat-code out of clean html).
> 
> It would be nice, but I think we're stuck with an obsolete local of NVU
> until the author finishes his new project.
> 
> I haven't tried bluefish, which another poster recommended. I will check
> it out.
> 
> My biggest showstopper is the msync kernel bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/401006

It's the reason I can't install etch on one of my machines (file 
corruption during install!), and paranoia about it on my AND-64 (the 
server) has caused me to go back to 2.6.17, though I haven't actually 
noticed any corruption there.
.
> 
> I'm having to fsck about every 5th reboot (this is a workstation so I
> reboot every day). The weird part about it is it's screwing up my kernel
> module files and nothing else. I think it must be triggered by something
> in the shutdown sequence (which is why I don't get segfaults running
> apt-get, etc.).
> 
> -s
> 
> 
> 
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