I'm with you. My current plan is to get a dual AMD64 workstation in December. I hope to be able to run Cooker on it.
Duncan wrote: > 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.) >
