I still run i686-bigmem since I only have 8G and since PAE only causes a small reduction (a couple of percent) in performance. It didn't seem worth switching t

I still run i686-bigmem since I only have 8G and since PAE only causes a small reduction (a couple of percent) in performance. It didn't seem worth switching to amd64 and risking some compatibility issues. Now it seems like it's time to switch. I'm finding some packages (not Debian specific) are built only for amd64...