On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:33:23AM -0400, 02fun-u2 wrote: > > > is there currentily any linux distros running in 64 bit mode on these cpu's amd > Opteron - athlon 64 fx or intel Itanium or Itanium 2 Processor, gentoo hase opteron > but only in 32 bit mode. i can't seem to find much on redhat. > > i see that the athlon 64 fx is around $500 with mb and cpu. if you have an os > running in 64 bit mode would you just get rpm's for that distro or compile from > source for that distro, cpu combo. And if it not a true 64 bit rewrite would you get > the opt benifit from the cpu?
You might be interested to surf through debian-amd64 to get a sense of the state of some of these issues http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64 --Joe
