On Wednesday, 27.07.2005 at 22:13 +0200, Emil Khatib wrote: > Hi everybody. I just bought a new Athlon 64 machine and I wanted to > ask if anybody has tried the amd64 port. Is it enough stable for a > desktop system? What are the advantages of using the amd64 port over > using sarge i386 + amd64 kernel? I've got a work-based statistical analysis server running the amd64 port on a quad-Opteron box - seems perfectly stable for that, so it'd certainly be fine for a desktop. You might find that there are some apps (OpenOffice comes to mind) that don't have native 64-bit versions available yet, but you can run them in a 32-bit chroot. You will have the same issues with binary-only browser plugins (flash, real) etc. as well ... Check the docs about all this, it's explained very well at http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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