Mandrake To Support AMD's Hammer

ruiner writes "Mandrake has announced their intention to support AMD's Hammer with a 64 bit version optimized for the new CPU. Redhat is also rumored to be following Suse's lead. 'This new generation of AMD Athlon and AMD Opteron processors is extremely exciting. A version of Mandrake Linux dedicated to these powerful 64-bit processors can certainly accelerate MandrakeSoft's growing adoption in the Linux corporate market' said Jacques Le Marois, CEO of MandrakeSoft."

dept.

[El Pollo Loco]

from the hammer-time-joke-goes-here dept.

Followed by a press release from AMD and mandrake saying "can't touch this!"

Exciting...

[javilon]

Why do they allways use the word "exciting". Do they copy and paste from each other?

Re:Exciting...

[JanneM]

Well, what do you expect? Ninety percent of press-releases are overhyped; they only exist to make something look big and significant. You might want something like this:

"In a totally pedestrian move, Mandrake - as utterly expected - announced a totally unsurprising future port to the Hammer architecture. As everybody have realized for the past year, Linux will be running on the platform, and this of course includes all the major distributions. Spokesmen for the company added: 'of course, no end-users will see any actual results from this announcement for another year or so, when actual systems will be available'. Added the AMD spokesperson: 'As far as novelty value goes, this announcement is the equivalent of watching paint dry.' Both did add that they do get a little free press out of the announcement, making it more valuable than the paper it's printed on."

/Janne

Re:Do we really need another layer on x86 PC arch

[cheezedawg]

Intel's Itanium is different than AMD's 64 bit processor. It is a completely new RISC architecture and Intel and HP developed together. It does not build upon the x86 "hacks". Compatibility with existing x86 code is achieved with an on-chip x86 emulation unit.

Re:dept.

[bilbobuggins]

Followed by a press release from AMD and mandrake saying "can't touch this!"

you're talking about when you run an athlon without a fan right?