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Fedora Core 1 For AMD64 test1 Available

Posted by timothy on from the vroom-vroom dept.

DrFishstik writes "From the Fedora Project Page: "A test release of Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. Like the original x86 architecture release, the AMD64 architecture has three binary ISO images and three source ISO images. This is a single (we hope and intend) test release specifically to check hardware support; the package set is the same versions as an updated Fedora Core 1 for x86 system will have.""

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  1. ISOs for other platforms? by trouser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looking at my local Fedora mirror I see there are RPMs for i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390, s390x and x86_64, however there are no ISOs for platforms other than x86 and soon AMD64, though that hasn't hit my mirror yet.

    I wonder if there are any plans to build ISOs for some of these platforms. PPC and PPC64 would be especially interesting to me as I already run Linux on a Mac and the Fedora packages are newer than those in the distro I'm using now. (eg. Gnome 2.4 vs. 2.2)

    Apparently it's already possible to install Fedora on a Mac. First build a minimal YDL 3.01 system, then reconfigure the yum package manager to get Fedora PPC packages instead of YDL packages. Haven't tried it myself. Interesting though.

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  2. Benchmarks! by Chris_Jefferson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I really want to see is some AMD 32-bit / 64-bit comparison benchmarks.. I've been unable to find any so far which show if recompiling in 64-bit mode is worth it in terms of speed boost (obviously it's useful to break the 4GB barrier, but does it also improve speed?)

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  3. Re:what is Fedora? by bhtooefr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    BTW, I don't own an x86-64 yet, but I'm looking hard at that eMachines laptop that /. mentioned earlier. One question: if you had two stores to pick from, and both sucked, which would you pick? They're Best Buy and Circuit City. BB sued FatWallet (very bad - especially when the fscking DMCA is brought in), CC made DiVX (not the video codec, the "rental" DVD - even worse, but it was a while ago).