[Sussex] Debian news...

[Trevor Marshall]

Gareth Ablett wrote:
>  From: Andrew Guard [mailto:andrew at andrewguard.com]
>>Geoffrey Teale wrote:
>>
>>>No doubt some of you are already aware, but...
>>>
>>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg00001.html
>>>
>>>... Sarge is frozen.. which means there will be a Debian release
>>>sometime in the next couple of months.
>>
>>Thats good, at long last it within last hurdles.
>>
>>But is it realy worth time and effort for all those CPU systems, isn't
>>waste of time doing anything but for AMD/Intel and PPC?
>>
Ohhhh yes.  I need something relatively recent to run on my old SPARC 
boxes - and I'm supposed to be getting a new (to me) SS20 this weekend 
which will need a Linux installation on it.  Should be ideal as a mail- 
and web-server.
> 
> 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?

--
Trevor Marshall