"Douglas McNaught" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Benjamin Weaver > <benjamin.weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Not knowing about such things, I was scared by the following quote. > Distro support for 64-bit x86 in 2004 was light-years behind where it > is now. A lot of stuff was hard to get working back then. Now almost > everything basically Just Works. Even in 2004, the guy would have had to be working on a rather old or broken distro to justify such a complaint. Getting 64-bit to work was a live issue maybe around 2001 or so... regards, tom lane
