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Re: Linux 64 bits ?¿



also sprach Jose Manuel Velasco Martinez <amimusa@gmail.com> [2005.04.21.1534 +0200]:
> Hi, i want to know how work linux (my system) with 64 bit processors,
> since i'm planning to upgrade my HW from a PIII/800Mhz Box. Then I'm
> thinking to get an AMD Athlon 64 or Shemprom. If linux works fine with
> 64 bits and i'm going to take the economic effort, surely i will do.
> In the case that linux not support 64 bit processor, but there is a
> group working on it, i would be glad to know about it.

http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/

I am running an AMD64 desktop system without any major problems.
I have to run OpenOffice from a chroot, but I don't use it often
anyway. Unfortunately, Opera 8 does not (yet) exist for AMD64.

Go for it!

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