The [other] man who did not know he had an amd64
Thanks to Julien Danjou, I am now aware I have to re-install my main desktop/development machine to take advantage of the 64 bits support of my Pentium 4 processor.
I think I will take the time to study what are the advantages and the drawbacks (OpenOffice.org in a chroot etc.), but I think I am too curious to wait too long!
This will surely have some consequences on my unofficial packages, as the unstable arch-dependent packages will have to be rebuilt so that I can at least use them.
Update: given the low advantages of the 64 bits architectures, and the numerous drawbacks it would bring for my desktop machine, I have decided to stick with i386 – at least for the moment
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