On 9/11/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
> > One wonders what the significant difference between Debian and Ubuntu
> > is in this context.
>
> It was more of a private joke. We had discussed his ditching Debian and
> going with Ubuntu. The reall difference is probably not much, in this
> case.
>
> Except possibly the kernel version in use, and most certainly the way
> the kernel was built.
Meanwhile here at home I am dithering about what to install on my new
HP/Compaq laptop with AMD64 Turion X2 processor. I have just become
confused by looking at the Debian web site on the "Debian on AMD64"
page. I see this, partway down:
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Minimalistic AMD64 runtime support for i386
The official i386 distribution actually includes minimalistic AMD64
support, consisting of a 64bit kernel, a toolchain able to create
64bit binaries and the amd64-libs package to run third-party amd64
binaries with native shared libraries.
- - - - - -
It confuses me greatly, since I don't know whether it is referring to
what is called the AMD64 distribution, or to something else. Reading
the AMD64 HOW-TO does not unconfuse me.
carl
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