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Mandrake 9.0 for AMD 64-bit Technology

Posted by timothy on from the it-yet-lives dept.

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."

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  1. Interesting, but... by spookymonster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will it be enough to keep them afloat?

    Is anyone really running Mandrake on a business server? I thought their target market was educational users and the desktop...

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    1. Re:Interesting, but... by HermanZA · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Mandrake is used on lots of business servers. In a business, time is money, so Mandrake's quick and easy installation is a huge plus point. I'm working at three companies and we use Mandrake everywhere, for servers and engineering work stations.

  2. Itanium, Shmitanium. by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I wonder is Intel is rethinking their plan to ride that piece of shit they call the itanium 2.

    With so much and so many on board with the x86-64 platform, it's fascinating that the industry leader [Intel] has all but written it all of as so much hype. Intel's line has never been that the Itanium is in the same league, which they consider to be nothing more than an extension of the 32 bit market. Intel's position on that is clear. Faster P4/Xeon, more cache, that's all anyone needs. (please resist the urge to throw in the old 640k quote) Itaniums are for bigger servers.

    The irony is that IBM once, rather cavalierly, dismissed the PC, they learned the hard way, Intel seems bent on making a similar choice.

    Do you need a 64 bit AMD? Well, hell yes, if your budget can afford it. Even /. drools a trough over the latest hi-tech toys and you know once the 64 bit systems hit shelves in the <$2000 range the floodgates will be open. Intel's best bet was/(may still be) Yamhill, but their pride would take a bruising following their little brother.

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  3. Re:Hammer! by thelexx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft announces development of AMD's x86-64 Hammer solutions. Mainstream Linux distro's follow suit. Software companies are looking at Microsoft and saying, "We're going to follow Microsoft, they have the money."

    Which explains perfectly why Linux runs on the following architectures yet Windows does not, and I can say with a large degree of certainty, never will:

    Alpha
    ARM
    IA64
    M68K
    MIPS
    MIPS-64
    PA-RISC
    PowerPC
    IBM S/390
    SH (a.k.a Hitachi H8)
    SPARC
    SPARC64

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