Red Hat Reveals Support For AMD's Hammer

Anonymous Coward writes "Red Hat had been rumored to be working on support AMD's Hammer architecture, and now they have made it official. Now if I can get a hold of one of these my little site will finally be able to handle a good slashdotting with 16GB of DDR333! 'Red Hat will provide native 64-bit support for processors based on AMD's x86-64 technology, while providing support for existing 32-bit Linux-based applications.'" Combine this with Linus' feelings and Hammer is looking better and better.

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Hardware upgrade

[GodlikeDoglike]

Now if I can get a hold of one of these my little site will finally be able to handle a good slashdotting with 16GB of DDR333!

Just as long as you lose that 14.4 modem you are hosting off.

Replacing your commodore 64 is just a start ;)

Re:Hardware upgrade

[gazbo]

Replacing your commodore 64 is just a start

That's all some people have got - they couldn't fit a bigger computer under the chicken coop, so the Taliban will have confiscated them.

You're missing the real need

[back@slash]

Anonymous Coward writes: Now if I can get a hold of one of these my little site will finally be able to handle a good slashdotting with 16GB of DDR333!

Not only that Anonymous Coward, but with the amount of posts you make to /. you need one of those just to keep up!

I remember...

[AppyPappy]

16 gig???

I remember when 48K was considered overkill because you couldn't fill it

I remember when 360k was enough for software and data

I remember when I got a 20 meg hd for my XT "just in case"

I remember when I didn't wear these damn Depends. NURSE!!!