On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:57:00AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:43:59PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > The Debian project, > > > > based on its Social Contract stating that its priorities are its users > > and free software, > > > > recognizing that the AMD64-based architectures are likely to become the > > most widespread on personal computers and workstations in a near future, > > > > Isn't the architecture called x86-64 (at least in Linux kernel) ?
This was discussed to death previously. The linux kernel calls it "x86_64" most of the other dists besides fedora call it "amd64". And the official name for the debian arch is "amd64". For a full discussion please see the following thread (it is long): http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2004/06/msg00037.html Chris
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