On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:43:33PM -0800, Kees de Koster wrote: > >> I want to try Debian Sid/unstable on a AMD Athlon X2 64 computer but > >> can't find the download location, only for I386, I tried that one with > >> downloading with Jigdo but that doesn't work on that machine. > >> Can somebody give directions or a URL for Sid AMD 64? > > > > > >Start here: > >https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto... > >Regards > > > >Clive > > Thanks Clive, I already had found that page but the URL's on it are > deadlinks. It would be good to tell someone to update the links! Bugreports! > > By reading the page again I decided that I will go for a easier distro > for the x86_64 computer ;-) you can still run i386, etc. on an amd. the difference is the speed bump for more recent/additional instructions. > > I read also on usenet that Debian is a purist on 64bit, so 32bit > application are difficult to run. That is true for now. IIRC they will implement something called 'multi-arch' to allow 32 and 64 bit apps to run. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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