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Nothing wrong with the Debian "testing" stream, aka "Sarge". It's the "unstable" stream that tends to be very prickly! New hardware support is usually just a matter of the kernel, and most times that matters one will likely be building their own custom kernel eventually regardless.

I am confusing my Debian nomenclature. They had unstable on several boxes and we couldn't get Sarge to find NICs on some of the Dell Poweredges... We are now pretty committed to kernel rolling for things like OpenMosix, but at the time we just wanted to get a bunch of infrastructure boxes running for things like Samba.

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But AMD64 support.. mmm.. yummy! Sounds like a great platform that 4-way/32G one!

Yup, twill be great for people with memory leaks in their C code! Dang, I just wish we could do something with it other than....statistics!