Re: Debian for AMD64

["David A. Parker" <dparker@utica.edu>]

> Been running Sarge for a year on a genuine AMD Opteron. Have Debian 
> unstable on several Opterons, a dual Xeon and Pentium D. The Pentium D 
> "feels" faster but may have a faster clock speed / dynamically faster 
> memory / peripherals. Not been running these for very long at all - but 
> no obvious problems.
>
> AMD64 - no problem :) The caveat is what level of package churn you can
> tolerate - unstable moves very quickly, testing less so, stable hardly 
> at all. Pick one and stick with it :)
>
> Andy

Thanks for the info!  That leads me to my next question...

Have most packages been ported to the amd64 architecture, or is there a 
limited selection?  I found the amd64 "testing" version here:

http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/images/

But I wasn't sure if most packages had been ported to use the 64-bit OS. 
 Any problems there?

    Thanks!
    Dave

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