[wplug] Current status of "Distro on a CD"?

Michael H. Semcheski lists at immuneit.com
Thu Oct 6 10:26:40 EDT 2005


Vanco, Don wrote:
> One question (somewhat unrelated to live CDs) - what does Gentoo
> consider ia64?  Is it Itanium, or does that embrace the current P4/Xeon
> with EM64T technology?  They have an AMD64 and an x86 release, but I
> couldn't find anything specifically identifying where EM64T falls in
> those releases.....

ia64 is definitely Itanium.  EM64T falls under amd64.

I don't have more info to explain this, but as far as I know all OS's
use amd64 for EM64T.

Mike



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