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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system'    -- huh?
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On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:

> for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to
> use the "generic x86_64" option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an
> IA64 system. In addition, all kernel options are either directly in the
> kernel, or modules that will eventually be required by some package.

ugh, sooo wrong.
amd64/x86_64 is the same. Intels emt64 is the clone. IA64 (itanium) is a 
completly different beast. Itanium doesn't even run x86 software (well). They 
have nothing in common.