On Tue 10 Jun 2003 02:56, Warly posted as excerpted below: > We, mandrakesoft, are very happy and enthusiast to see people working > on other architectures or even creating new ports. > > However, some mandrakesoft developers may be reluctant to do extra > work for non officially supported archs, when they do not even have > enough time for the job they are supposed to do, this is > understandable. > > However do not think we do not care, and I will try to help as much as I > can any initiative like yours.
I've been following this thread fairly closely, because I've been thinking about upgrading next to an x86-64 for my desktop. I'm hoping to get a dual processor board, altho I'd install only a single CPU initially and upgrade to the second later. Anyway.. what I'm wondering, since I like to keep cookerized, is what status Mandrake is going to be, for the desktop, for the Athlon-64 when it comes out for the desktop. Am I going to be better off just upgrading to the plain old 32 bit Athlon (probably dual CPU)? I'd also thought that altho I hadn't done the club thing, I'd probably do it at that, as I really couldn't justify NOT doing it at that point, particularly if I was spending all that $$ on hardware and if Mdk was going to have a decent distrib for it. I don't know how many others there are out there willing to pay, but I'm certainly planning on it if I go to that and Mdk is available at cooker update frequencies. Alternatively, I've been looking at Gentoo, if I'm going to have to compile everything myself anyway.. (Right now, my CPU, formerly overclocked, can't handle that sort of full time 100% CPU without crashing at some point. I've been trying to nurse it along until the Athlon 64 comes out, but if Mdk isn't going to aim for the desktop on it in a cookerized version, I'm going to have to change my plans somehow or other, I'm not sure how yet.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
