Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > 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: > - - - - - - > Minimalistic AMD64 runtime support for i386
Let's re-title this: Minimalistic support for AMD64 cpus and binaries in i386 release > > 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. Does that help clear it up? Personally, I installed the AMD64 on my Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU. Works fine! -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
