--- 02fun-u2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
suse has a 64bit build. The main hump for a 64 bit os is glibc and gcc both configured to use 64bit mode before compileing all programs. The other issue is the linux drivers. Most have to be rewriten for best performance. ===== Ted Katseres ------------------------------------------------ ------ C , C++, Java or Cobol ------- ------ Linux doesn't care ------------- ------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
