Re: running legacy apps compiled for 7.2 & 7.3 in x86-64

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Matt Wilson wrote:

>On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 04:31:03PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> The current plan is to ship RHEL in the fall as a fully supported
>> product for the AMD64 platform.  Further than that, as has been
>> the case in the past, Red Hat does not preannounce product plans,
>> release dates, version numbers of future or possible future
>> products.
>
>To be clear, we tend not to pre-announce product plans for Red Hat
>Linux, which closely tracks developments in the Open Source
>communities.  We do provide a fair amount of detail about other
>product lines such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Right, I guess I kind of left that a bit unclear.  Doh.

>So, if the question is: "will the next version of Red Hat Linux
>support the AMD64 platform in 64-bit mode," the answer is "we
>don't know yet."  If the question is "Will Opteron be supported
>in the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," the answer is
>"yes."

You have such a way of saying what I'm thinking in so many less 
words.  ;o)



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