Thanks Paolo, Guess this buries my prospect of deploying them on servers then. I might as well wait for the stable Etch release this December (so I hear).
Perhaps I'll just try testing it out on my destkop athlon 64 and upgrade to a custom 2.6.17 kernel and see how it goes. -Paul Patrick C. Prantilla Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 17:21 +0800, Paul Patrick C. Prantilla wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to know if anyone here has tried the unofficial stable debian >> port for Athlon 64: >> >> http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ >> >> While I plan to test it out first, perhaps what I most would like to >> know is if it seems stable enough for production purposes. Any feedback >> would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks! > > It's a bit pretty grim... I've had the chance to use the unofficial > stable port of Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 and it's not really that good (as > they're using Linux 2.6.8 - wherein stability problems abound for > AMD64). You'd be better off doing a distribution upgrade to Etch, or > just use Ubuntu. > > Other distros of that era used higher versions of the kernel (2.6.10 if > I recall). _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
