Linked by Og Maciel on Tue 25th Jan 2005 20:24 UTC
In my never ending search for the ultimate challenge, I decided to remove Gentoo Linux from my trusty laptop and install something else that wasn't as resource starving. Thus, Debian was selected.
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http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/
Debian on AMD64
This page is meant to assist users and Debian developers running Debian GNU/Linux on the AMD64 architecture. Here, you will find information about the current status of the port, which machines are publically accessible by developers, where to discuss development of the port, where to get further information about Debian porters, and pointers to more information.
Current Status
The AMD64 port is currently waiting to be included into the official Debian archive. The development archive is currently hosted on Alioth. The port contains kernels for all AMD 64bit CPUs with amd64 extension and all Intel CPUs with "em64t" extension, and a common userspace.
A complete 64bit userland
The userland is entirely 64bit, taking advantage of the additional CPU registers, no lower and upper memory segmentation and the ability to address more then 4GB per process. Native execution of legacy 32bit binaries is supported by the kernel, and core libraries are provided by the ia32-libs package.