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Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64



On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:57:00AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:43:59PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > The Debian project,
> > 
> > based on its Social Contract stating that its priorities are its users 
> > and free software,
> > 
> > recognizing that the AMD64-based architectures are likely to become the
> > most widespread on personal computers and workstations in a near future,
> > 
> 
> Isn't the architecture called x86-64 (at least in Linux kernel) ? 

This was discussed to death previously. The linux kernel calls it
"x86_64" most of the other dists besides fedora call it "amd64". And the
official name for the debian arch is "amd64". For a full discussion
please see the following thread (it is long):

http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2004/06/msg00037.html

Chris

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