UserLinux plans anounced

I am having a press conference today and there will be announcements
regarding UserLinux. I am planning to announce:

1. We are planning a mass beta for i386-based systems September 1.
2. We will track the Debian release process, and that Debian currently
targets September 15.
3. We are seeking additional service vendors to establish our global
support network.
4. The big one: In addition to i386, we will add commercial support of
Debian Pure AMD64 with an i386 chroot for 32-bit compatibility.

We will have Pure AMD64 support even though this will probably not be an
officially-supported architecture of Debian for this release. Not all
service vendors will support it. I have been running this for months and it
is stable. Its main problems are that Linux Standard Base does not yet
address it and that Debian would like to transition to "multiarch" support
that is not ready for this release. Thus customers should expect a
larger-than-usual change next release. The subsequent release is not
expected to use a chroot to implement the 32-bit compatibility but will
provide it through the Debian "multiarch" facility. But the fact that there
will be a big change between releases is true for all Linux distributions
that will cover AMD64, and is a consequence that early adoptors bear. Our
release date for Pure AMD64 is not yet determined but is expected to be
later than our i386 release.

Thanks

Bruce

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