Re: archLSB naming
Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Nov 2003 06:51:01 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lsb.discuss |
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| Organization | SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany |
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On Mon, Nov 17, Matt Taggart wrote: > Hi lsb-discuss, > > I have a question about archLSB naming. Why do we call it "amd64" when > `uname -m` and config.guess return "x86_64"? Because AMD changed the name from x86-64 to amd64 after everyone was using x86_64 ... So the official name of the architecture is amd64. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [email protected] SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B