[wplug] Debian 64 bit?

[Jonathan Billings]

On , Terence J. Golightly said:
> You should be able to install using the amd64 port.  From my 
> understanding AMD first came out with the spec for the 64 bit processor 
> ahead of Intel's emt64.  So AMD64 sort of became a defacto standard name 
> for the 64bit port that will install on either architecture.  If still 
> not sure, just try out a live image of the AMD64.  Download and toast to 
> dvd, boot and report back.

Does anyone know why debian still uses amd64 instead of the more
widely used x86_64?

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>