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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (159261)	2/19/2002 11:58:54 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"How many versions of Linux are there" That is a non-issue. The big problem is the kernel gcc and binutils. Once that is in place, anybody can get a full distribution in short order. if nothing else, SuSE should have a distribution when the Hammers get ready to ship, if they haven't done it yet for CeBit. I just looked on the timeline, and apparently Linux has integrated the x86-64 kernel code into the 2.5.5pre1 tree. In addition, the gcc support has been integrated into the official tree. It doesn't get any more official than that. For the most part, it is just a matter of running the package manager, getting the sources, and compiling. I've ported many a package to various platforms, it is almost always that easy. Sometimes, with the driver code you can run into issues, like the driver being written for I/O mapped and you need memory mapped, but even they generally go over with very little problems. Most of the issues that cause problems won't be one because of the architectural similarities between x86 and x86-64.