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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 Stability?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:40:35
Message-Id: 20060905163016.233a0f3f@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] AMD64 Stability? by "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
1 On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:47:20 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
2
3 > Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen
4 > with AMD64 systems using Gentoo (the AMD 64-bit binaries)? How about
5 > the majority of ports in the portage tree?
6
7 I've been running ~amf64 for over two years with no real problems. There
8 was a shortage of packages at first, but that was mainly due to a lack
9 of testing. Keywording packages and filing bug reports when they worked
10 helped with this.
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12 This system is now as stable (as in reliable, I still run ~amd64 so it's
13 far from unchanging) as my x86 boxen.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]

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