Let me ask about Debian

Let me ask about Debian

Posted Sep 20, 2006 6:14 UTC (Wed) by amacater (subscriber, #790)
In reply to: Let me ask about Debian by felixfix
Parent article: My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com)

Last point first: AMD64 wasn't (quite) released as Debian 3.1 but released
about a fortnight later: it therefore isn't in the main archives as Debian
3.1. 64 bit only, though with the option of 32 bit compatibility libraries.
Will be released as a full architecture with Debian 4.0 [Currently Debian
Etch/testing]. Rocks :) Has almost as many packages as the 32 bit Debian.
Missing: OpenOffice.org, 32 bit only video codecs and "stuff", some Firefox
plugins? Ncurses install, though now with the option of a GTK gui. Running
it here on 2 machines (one testing, one unstable). The name is a slight
misnomer - it will run happily on Intel EM64T with no modification.
Installing <random package from source> from scratch - eminently possible,
but probably unnecessary for the most part. [Someone asked me once about
scapy - a packet mungeing tool - and I watched the chaos of a Gentoo
install which needed large amounts compiled, libraries updated - took about
half a morning to get a half working package. On a Debian testing box, I
just did "apt-get install scapy" - and it worked.]

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