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Linus: Praying for Hammer to Win
An anonymous reader writes "The boys at Intel can't be happy with the latest opposition to the IA-64 instruction set. According to this Inquirer scoop, Linus himself has weighed in, and it appears he's putting his eggs in the x86-64 basket. In the original usenet post, he goes so far as to say that 'We're ... praying that AMD's x86-64 succeeds in the market, forcing Intel to make Yamhill their standard platform.'"
It would be nice if good hardware was actually adopted into the mainstream, but Mac and Sun are living proof that people want CHEAP hardware. Let's all pray this is a good median.
With my current love of OS X I could care less what's happening in the "WIntel" world. I'm the only one at my work that uses Linux on the desktop because we only have x86 based destop systems. I'd be more than happy to dump this system for a G4 dual 1GHz. I'm not knocking Linux at all, in fact I still love it for a server environment, but with all the "hoopla" over the GUI it needs to grow up a bit. I've been happily using Linux on my desktop for almost 10 years straight at work while everyone else has gone through the headache of upgrading Windows, and the ugliness that is XP...Hell, my 6mo old daughter could design a better looking interface. Anyway, I'm just not excited about anything on the x86 front anymore. How far off is the ia-64 from it's original release date? Wasn't it scheduled for release in 2000? Bah...