On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 22:50, David Walser wrote: > 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.) > > >
Quote properly PLEASE, David. You'll both be able to run Cooker quite happily whether or not it's compiled for the Athlon 64, because one of the main points of the Athlon 64 is it runs x86 32-bit code natively... -- adamw
