[Sussex] Debian news...

[Paul Graydon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Williams [mailto:sdp.williams at btinternet.com] 
> Sent: 05 May 2005 13:20
> To: paul at paulgraydon.co.uk; LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: RE: [Sussex] Debian news...
> 
> 
> 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.


LOL... *pats little Linux box*

Nice stage 1 gentoo install on my mucking about machine ;-)