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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:41:06
Message-Id: 200902061341.01570.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? by Christopher Walters
1 On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
2
3 > for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to
4 > use the "generic x86_64" option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an
5 > IA64 system. In addition, all kernel options are either directly in the
6 > kernel, or modules that will eventually be required by some package.
7
8 ugh, sooo wrong.
9 amd64/x86_64 is the same. Intels emt64 is the clone. IA64 (itanium) is a
10 completly different beast. Itanium doesn't even run x86 software (well). They
11 have nothing in common.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Christopher Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net>