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Mandrake To Support AMD's Hammer

Posted by michael on from the hammer-time-joke-goes-here dept.

ruiner writes "Mandrake has announced their intention to support AMD's Hammer with a 64 bit version optimized for the new CPU. Redhat is also rumored to be following Suse's lead. 'This new generation of AMD Athlon and AMD Opteron processors is extremely exciting. A version of Mandrake Linux dedicated to these powerful 64-bit processors can certainly accelerate MandrakeSoft's growing adoption in the Linux corporate market' said Jacques Le Marois, CEO of MandrakeSoft."

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  1. define "support"... by spoon42 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ok, so they're going to support this new platform. That's great, but:

    Does "support" mean "put out a press release and then recompile all our packages once the kernel and gcc people do all the work"?

    If they're not contributing this is just a bullshit attention-grabbing publicity stunt.

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  2. finally by MrSloth · · Score: -1, Troll

    i would just like to point out that Apple has been using 128 bit processors long before the PC world caught up

  3. Re:why is this such a big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    because by the time you could actually afford a multia, they were crap.
    They were the equiv. to a TRS-80...

    What's you point? Who gives a fuck about 64-bit linux, when you could run Solaris on a 64 bit processor, and actually have a scalable operating system... not some POS "UNIX Like" OS...

    dude, Linux is for bitches