Re: AMD/Intel compatibility again

greg wrote:

> I want to keep my laptop and desktop absolutely identical (same distro,
> same files updated with rsync, same programs installed, same
> executables
> in my directories without need to recompile, etc). The laptop
> is Intel based (32 bits). If I buy a 64 bits AMD desktop, will I run
> into
> compatibility issues?

Not "compatibility" per se but you're going to have to compile in kernel
support for all the chips etc that both machines need to boot. You'll
almost certainly have a different video chip and probably different disk
controllers. May be other differences in the chipset as well.

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