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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. Re:Technology Preview??? by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think previews are a good idea as a measn of guaging customer response before commiting to a full release schedule of functionality and dates. Let potential customers play with it for a while and get their feedback without everyone wondering when it will be released, are dates slipping, will features be dropped rtc ad nauseum. It gives people a chance to properly evaluate and provide meaningful feedback

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  2. Re:Great by vadim_t · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How are you going to benchmark it?

    The only meaningful benchmark IMO is processing_power/cost. A comparison based on clock speed would be pretty useless since architectures are different, and Itanium is so incredibly expensive. I'm pretty sure that even if x86_64 is slower it's much cheaper to get enough CPUs for your needs than to buy an Itanium.