I currently I have 3 systems, two of these have Debian 1386 installed (7.x) the third has AMD64. I have not gone AMD64 with any enthusiasim because of some problems. The first problem is the AMD64 machine locks up regularly generally when playing videos, Note, xine will not work on this machine so I use vlc. The lock up usually involves the whole machine EXCEPT for the audio, one can only get out of it with a power off, a hard rest will NOT generally work, ie it sometimes does and sometimes does not. The second point is not really a decent problem, its that googleearth is not __easy__ to install as its a 32 bit program. The package system just winghes that it needs some i386 libraries, but will not do anything about it. IMPORTANT NOTE, THIS MEANS YOU, I do not regard this as a show stopper as all it needs is to install the apropriate items manually and I am quite capable of doing that. Its just that along with the lockups and xine not working, its another reason not to bother with AMD64. The machine itself is new (at the time, its nearly 18 months old now, ie the problem is that old) using a Gigabyte Sabertooth X79 motherboard and an AMD 7870 GPU running the Radeon OS driver. Debian has been updated a number of times without any improvement. Note WindowsXP runs completely OK on the machine so the hardware is OK. I am on the verge of dumping AMD64 all together, anyone have any ideas? Maybe Debian AMD64 does not like the Sabertooth X79, I have had a similiar situation on the system this post is being writen on. lindsay linux now since 1993, kernel 0.96d.