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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.
Moderate this as a flame if you want cause I am sick and tired of this x86-64 bullcrap.
Lets see, the history of slashdot and most of computer-geekdom has always ribbed Intel for maintaining backwards compatibility with processors more than a decade old. Sure, x86 is great due to all the applications out for it, but in all honesty why can't we move away from it?
With Slashdot, Linus and most of the online review sites pushing for x86-64, one has to wonder if AMD is slipping cash under the table to all these parties. If not, then what happened to those people who wanted innovation in the releam of processors and just not cheap hacks upon hacks upon hacks? It's kinda funny but the way AMD is going is sorta the way Microsoft is: maintain backward compatibility at all costs.
My guess is that most people pushing x86-64 have yet to write a program more complicated than "hello world!". Let's stick to our desire for innovation and truely stand behind the company willing to shed the baggage: Intel.