[plug] AMD64 distros

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 11:41, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> 
> > For the last 5 months or so since I've had an AMD64 system and have been 
> > running 32 bit distributions because I cannot find a good, practical 64 
> > bit distro for the AMD64 that has a good method for 32 bit compatibility 
> > and is updated often.
> 
> Debian?
> 
> Unfortunately the debian-amd64 project is hosted on alioth which is
> down at the moment :(
> 
Any idea how many of the packages have been ported yet?

I assume you can still run win32 apps on 64-bit XP so it should be
important to be able to run existing packages on 64 bit Linux.
> Cameron.
> 
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