[tbrownaw]

> If only Debian also distributed a version compiled for an i686 and x86-64. I know it probably wont make a huge difference for most programs. But it niggles at my sensibilities that I am not using the architecture to its full.

Um, I think they do have a x64 version...

    $ cat /etc/debian_version 
    6.0

    $ file /bin/bash
    /bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically link
    ed (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped

    $ file /lib/libc-2.11.2.so 
    /lib/libc-2.11.2.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dyn
    amically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped

[trop]

You lucky 64-bit people:

  * cat /etc/debian_version
  6.0
  * file /bin/bash
  /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped
  * file /lib/libc-2.11.2.so 
 /lib/libc-2.11.2.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped
  * grep name /proc/cpuinfo 
  model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
  *

This used to bother me, but now that a Pentium 4 seems nearly as archaic as an 80386, I guess it's not so much of an issue.

[srean]

Oops my bad. I know, 'cause I am running one. What the hell was I thinking.