Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:50:22PM -0800, D. Starner wrote:
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> Before it's in Debian, AMD64 is already the fourth most commonly
> used architecture according to popularity-contest. There's only
> three architectures sold in stores to the average person--ix86,
> PowerPC and AMD64. 95% of the packages are already compiled for
> AMD64. There is no technical reason not to add it into unstable.
Actually, I can get an ARM-based iPaq or similar in far more stores than
I can buy an Opteron or Athlon64. Of course, I'll have to purge it from
Windows first, but then again, most systems you buy in a store, except
for Mac's, suffer from that problem...
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Regards: David Weinehall
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