Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-09-30 Thread Daniel Thomas Hasbrouck
All I will Say is that win8, has a long way to go, to catch up to my raid
sys. Thankfully my personal PC is not Connected to Net. Am in A PC Lab Now,
on a Mac/windows hybrid.  It's not often  I do connect my own PC to the Net
& do not anticipate it happening anytime soon. I like it the way it is.


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Daniel Schepler wrote:

> I'd say probably just cc me (or maybe x...@debian-ports.org though I
> haven't tested yet whether that address actually forwards to me).  I don't
> usually read debian-amd64.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> Daniel Schepler wrote:
>>
>> > Actually, after the initial phase where I was getting x32 multilib
>> support
>> > into gcc and eglibc, and starting up the port, the email activity
>> related
>> > to this has settled down to virtually nothing.  So I actually don't see
>> any
>> > need for a dedicated list for this anymore (at least for now).
>>
>> Ok, thanks.  Should I use debian-amd64 if I want to contact porters,
>> or should I just cc you?
>>
>> I fear that the debian-amd64 list is not very useful these days, since
>> it is too easy for newcomers to confuse it for a special-case
>> debian-user.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Jonathan
>>
>
>


Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-09-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >
> > Really the only difference between distributions is their packaging
> > system, their support infrastructure, their release schedule/policy, and
> > how up to date the software is and what software they offer packages for.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Now my project at the Italian supercomputer center is going to production.
> I had no problems with RedHat as far as number crunching is concerned. Now,
> however, I need to access their Remote Visualization service to deal - also
> on the X server - with large files. To this end, I need to download
> software compatible with Debian amd64. The variety of graphic and
> non-graphic tools that I use is very large. Their 64 bit Linux list
> (lacking any GNU Linux  for either 64 or 32 bit)
> 
> RCM_darwin
> RCM ubuntu 12.04
> RCM RHL 5.6
> RCM openSUSE 11.4 and 12.2
> 
> I would appreciate advice as to which RCM will likely work for me. I heard
> about ubuntu but, to avoid being flooded by messages, i put it in the spam.
> The advice I can even from the center is very limited as they don't know
> what I have.

Well Ubuntu is based on Debian, so there is at least a good chance a
package for ubuntu will work on Debian.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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