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Red Hat To Support PowerPC, AltiVec

Posted by Hemos on from the adding-on-the-supports dept.

Steve Cowan writes "According to an article at MacCentral, Red Hat has announced that they will produce a GNUPro toolchain and cross compiler for AltiVec-enabled PowerPC processors (such as that found in the Power Mac G4). It will be interesting to see just what kind of performance gains this will bring, because many believe that the full potential of AltiVec is far from tapped."

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  1. How much different are they? by h3llphyre · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So, how long before someone sues Apple for forcing people to buy OS-X with their Mac hardware. Is it really that much different then M$? Or are they worse. I mean, I can build an x86 system without M$ OSes. I cant do the same with a Mac