[gobolinux-users] Re: AMD64 support?

[Dave Dodge]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:23:41AM -0300, teique wrote:
> based on this, another and most depressing problem is the 64bit 
> portability of each package,

It's probably not all that bad.  Linux has been running on 64-bit
systems since 1995, and it's even getting to be pretty common these
days with amd64 and em64t hardware being found in desktops and
laptops.

> I can guess that to prepare a 64bit distro would require code
> adjustments, with luck in just a few packages/codePoints :/

If so then someone else has probably already done them.  SuSE, Red
Hat, Ubuntu, and others are readily available for 64-bit systems.  If
you're worried about a specific package, you can always take a look at
their source packages and see what patches they include.

One case I do know of is the Xorg server, which has a small bug that
can cause trouble with compiz and Xgl on amd64.  It's supposedly fixed
in the lastest release.

                                                  -Dave Dodge