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Mandrake 9.0 for AMD 64-bit Technology
Wister285 writes "Mandrake Linux has released a version of their operating system that is compatible with AMD's 64-bit x86 architecture. This version is based upon Mandrake 9.0. In addition to this, Mandrake announced Corporate Server 2.1 for AMD64 to be released in April 2003 and MandrakeClustering for Opteron in June 2003. Although they say that you can download the operating system now, I cannot find any FTP servers. The press release is located on Mandrake's website."
Enterprise server is proprietary. You have to pay for it. Enterprise server isnt like Red Hat's standard linux distibution which is free.
Choose wisely you must...
You can download ES from RedHat's site after you've paid it. You can get the same RedHat minus the Orcale and clustering from any of RedHat's mirrors, just without support, and only a year of updates
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
I did find what looks like the x86 64 bit version, but it's dated 2/12/2003, so I'm not sure if this it it.9 .0/x8 6_64/
ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/
the mandrake control center was very handy for my laptop running 802.11b PCMCIA, and the install was very smooth on my ThinkPad. However, in the end, I still ended up switching over to a different distro simply because I wasn't happy with the package management. The defaults were giving me no end of trouble for my perl modules, and overall I felt i could get better performance out of a more customizable (from the outset, such as Core Linux or Gentoo) distro. So while I think they are fine for a great many users, Mandrake turned out not to be my thing in the end. Also, I recommend against Apt4RPM on mandrake...bad experience on my wifes desktop box with that.
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Small correction, the Linux kernel hackers announced their intention to support Hammer before MS did. MS followed suit in this case.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
How exactly is a company that has been bleeding cash for the past 2 years and struggling with a declining market share (that just recently leveled off at 19%) in a "great position" to topple a company with 10x the revenue and 10x the cash on hand?
You AMD fanboys are too busy cleaning up your own drool to take a look at the big picture.
If you dont think AMD consulted MSFT with every step of the design process, you're nuts.
If MSFT wasnt going to support Hammer, they wouldnt have developed it.
The company names their flagship CPU line "Athlon XP" and you dont think they have very close ties inside Microsoft?
heres a link for you anyways From april of 2002. I'll even read the opening line for you.
"AMD confirmed Wednesday that it will collaborate with Microsoft to tune Windows to run on its upcoming family of Hammer chips. "
A google of "microsoft" and "hammer" should get more hits.
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Motherboards, Blades and even a peek at Win64 at CeBit
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Windows on SPARC was done but never saw the light of day.
The location is http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#iso I'm pretty sure that is the 9.0 i586 release. Try research in the future.
I was also a little irritated that I had to insert the Mandrake installation CDs every now and then. But here is a solution: copy the CDs on your harddrive ! That is, if you have enough space left :-) I put everything under /root/packages/mdk_install_cds/cd1, cd2, etc. After that, go to rpmdrake, click on "define sources" and modify the sources to point to your folders. In my case, the url for the 1st CD looks like: file://root/packages/mdk_install_cds/cd1and the relative path to the synthesis is ../base/hdlist1.cz (just remember that synthesis for all CDs are in the first CD). And that's it, you can install any package from the distribution without messing around with your CDs :-)
Hope this helps,
Opterons (SledgeHammer) come out in April. Athlon 64's (ClawHammer) have been pushed back to September, likely because AMD wants to be damn sure they have the SOI fab space to meet Opteron demand and because the good ol' Athlon line has been extended further than previously expected (Athlon 3000+, etc).
It's critical for AMD to clobber the Intel Xeon. Opteron can do that. Without the fat margins from overpriced Xeons, Intel's ability to engage in desktop/mobile CPU price wars without gushing red ink will be significantly constrained. Works in theory.