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Red Hat Releases x86_64 Technology Preview, GinGin

Posted by Hemos on from the trying-it-out-the-new-stuff dept.

HTMLSpinnr writes "Red Hat announced today it's release of GinGin64, a "Technology Preview" (read: not beta) of Red Hat's AMD64 technology. You can grab a copy here or at one of Red Hat's various mirrors. Though the version number listed in the release notes is 8.0.95, inside sources say it's based on Red Hat 9 plus some updates."

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  1. MMmm.... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    GinGin and TonicTonic with a good squeeze of LimeLime.

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  2. Re:On what will it function? by vesamies · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think it will. You know, AMD64 technology is only 64 bits, whereas Commondore 64 is 64K bytes, which according to my calculations is 524288 bits. Keep your C64 in a closet for a while longer...

  3. Re:Debian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hold on there buddy you're talking new technology + debian better wait about a decade.

  4. Impossible! by gillbates · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you mean to tell me that Linux is available on a 64 bit architecture before Windows?! Does Steve "Mr. Innovation" Balmer know about this?

    We all know this is a hoax. It's not possible for open source software to "innovate"...

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  5. I will wait for official SCO x86-64 support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why does GCC support SCO UNIX, anyway?

  6. Re:Overheard at Intel... by pmz · · Score: 2, Funny

    echo "I think all the current 64-bit CPU producers are thinking about this, too, and saying \"oh\" and \"um\" quite a bit trying to figure out there marketing plans." | sed -e "s/there/their/g"

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  7. Re:Debian? by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's going great! Their plan for x86-64 support is coming along nicely:

    1. Wait for RedHat to implement x86-64 support.
    2. ?
    3. Profit!

    Of course, this is how it's done, this is what's so nice about FAOS programs, code reuse between projects. It is in particular what has made Linux the OS with the fastest-growing installed base, though I can't see how that could be true unless you lump all Windows together. Even lumping all NT together shouldn't work what with the 9x -> XP upgraders.

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  8. Re:Overheard at Intel... by Glock27 · · Score: 2, Funny
    To those who chimed in with "Overrated" mods...don't shoot the messenger. As someone said "To moderate is human, to reply divine". Let's see your rebuttal.

    BTW, I'm sorry about your Intel stock, especially regarding what's about to happen to it. ;-)

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  9. Re:Overheard at Intel... by Rob+Riggs · · Score: 3, Funny
    the OS kernel would need to know how to best schedule and allocate processes to [limit] CPUs from accessing other CPUs' memories


    And this technology must be Unix proprietary technology owned by SCO, because, god knows, no one else could come up with ccNUMA...

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  10. Look what I found in the sources! by jeeryg_flashaccess · · Score: 2, Funny
    "..inside sources say it's based on Red Hat 9 plus some updates."
    ...inside sources also say:

    forward 50
    right 90
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    Mmmm Hmmmm.
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    1. Re:Look what I found in the sources! by Mr+Thinly+Sliced · · Score: 1, Funny

      My god!

      Its built on logo!

      (* dramatic music, and scene passing through stars and hyper-universe bridge *)