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Chapter 3

Compatibility issues

3.1 On

what

hardware

architectures/systems

does

Debian

GNU/Linux run?

Debian GNU/Linux includes complete source code for all of the included pro 

grams, so it should work on all systems which are supported by the Linux ker 

nel;

see

the

Linux

FAQ

(

http://en.tldp.org/FAQ/Linux FAQ/intro.html#

DOES LINUX RUN ON MY COMPUTER

) for details.

The current Debian GNU/Linux release, 3.1, contains a complete, binary distribution for the

following architectures:

i386: this covers PCs based on Intel and compatible processors, including Intel's 386, 486,

Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II (both Klamath and Celeron), and Pentium III, and most

compatible processors by AMD, Cyrix and others.

m68k: this covers Amigas and ATARIs having a Motorola 680x0 processor for x>=2; with MMU.

alpha: Compaq/Digital's Alpha systems.

sparc: this covers Sun's SPARC and most UltraSPARC systems.

powerpc: this covers some IBM/Motorola PowerPC machines, including CHRP, PowerMac and

PReP machines.

arm: ARM and StrongARM machines.

mips: SGI's big endian MIPS systems, Indy and Indigo2; mipsel: little endian MIPS machines,

Digital DECstations.

hppa: Hewlett Packard's PA RISC machines (712, C3000, L2000, A500).

ia64: Intel IA 64 ( Itanium ) computers.

s390: IBM S/390 mainframe systems.

The development of binary distributions of Debian for Sparc64 (UltraSPARC native) architec 

tures is currently underway.