[Sussex] Debian news...

[Stephen Williams]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:46 +0100, Paul Graydon wrote:
> > > I could probably look to find out myself but as it wasn't glaringly 
> > > obvious I decide to ask you. Do you know if there is going to be a 
> > > stable release of sarge for x86-64 platform?
> > 
> > Woo-hah! a question I can answer!  The answer looks like 
> > "no", it'll be 
> > stable in Etch, see 
> > <http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-amd64-howto.html
> > #id274719>
> > for details.
> >
> >I've been thinking about an amd64 system as a replacement for this old 
> >400MHz PII as a workstation, and I looked at Debian availability :-(. 
> >There's an Ubuntu amd64 version - anybody tried that?
> 
> Yup.. And it didn't particularly like my Via based motherboard (come to
> think of it.. I don't either, its not the stableist platform, but I
> bought it as a stop-gap so that when I replace the GFX card with a
> PCI-Express I'm not having to replace memory, cpu and processor at the
> same time, just the mobo and gfx card)
> I will admit, I didn't spend any great amount of time trying to get it
> to work, and actually chucked a 32bit Slack install on here instead,
> which works... Even if not at 64bit.  At some point when I've got fewer
> projects on my plate I'll actually spend the time to get Ubuntu working,
> but when it doesn't even recognise either of my 2 network cards (mobo
> integrated and an SMC one), it tends to make life a pain.
> 

Paul,

If you're spending that much time and effort, why not try Gentoo?

Steve W.

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