On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:47, Gene C. wrote:
Not surprised about the G5 or the Power4. However, the AMD64 is the only architecture that Red Hat currently is trying to support dual architecture under a single OS (If you ignore the i386/i586/i686/athlon support). The problem is that with the AMD64 you want most of the packages in the distribution to be 64 bit with support to run other (user) 32 bit applications.
Incorrect, we do similar on zSeries (s390x is 64-bit with 31-bit compatibility) and i/pSeries (userspace is mostly 32-bit with some 64-bit compatibility at present) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Cheers,
Jeremy