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[NMLUG] Free Ubuntu CDs
On Saturday 30 July 2005 17:45, Jeff Woods wrote:
> At 7/30/2005 17:39 -0600, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> >do any of the x86 packages do x86_64?
> >or... will the AMD64 run on Xeon?
>
> The x86_64 version is labelled "Version 5.04 for AMD64/EM64T" and
> includes both "live" and "install" CDs. I'd expect it to work on
> 64bit Xeon systems.
Ubuntu works fine on my AMD64 system here, as does Debian. EM64T is just
basically just Intel's name of AMD64 because, well, it would be silly for
them to call it AMD64.
Keep in mind that Linux hardware support isn't as good yet for x86_64 as it
is for x86; for instance, for my on-board network card I had to patch the
kernel with updated drivers, as the distributed sk98lin module didn't
support my ethernet card. This will be pretty universally true regardless
of what GNU/Linux distribution you use, but will hopefully improve quickly.
--
Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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