I take exception to: "Several of the people working on the port have expressed outcry at this and questioned whether it was indeed my decision to select the name for the architecture."
So far the signed email vote for amd64 on debian-amd64 list by the porters is: AMD64 naming ----- 14 for 0 against 10 yet to vote So that is a lot more than just several people, it is the majority of the amd64 porter team, so far everyone who has voted wants to use AMD64 as the name. -- Also, Scott forgot to mention that even Microsoft names the arch amd64, which he seemed to think was a good reason not to use it. ;) Windows XP (for AMD64 arch) srv03sp1_usa_1069_amd64fre_pro.iso -- As far as marketing and user facing documentation from the various os/dists the following use amd64: FreeBSD Gentoo LSB Mandrake Microsoft NetBSD OpenBSD RedHat Enterprise Linux SUSE Only Fedora refers to the arch as x86_64 in documentation. To use anything else will, in my honest opinion, confuse users. Sincerely, Chris Cheney
