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

[Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 05 May 2003 14:10:10 -0500, you wrote:

>Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> GinGin64 is not an alpha nor a beta product, but rather it is a
>> technology preview which essentially is an unsupported port of
>> Red Hat Linux 9 to AMD64 along with a number of specific updates
>> and fixes for AMD64.
>
>Any chances of a supported port of RHL-9 to the Opteron?
>
>> This technology preview is not an official Red Hat supported
>> release, but allows customers to be able to evaluate the AMD64
>> architecture using a technology preview of many of the various
>> technologies which will be officially released for AMD64 in Red
>> Hat Enterprise Linux later this fall.
>
>Any plans for a non RHEL version at all?

As the Red Hat people have pointed out, Red Hat does not pre-announce
their plans for Red Hat Linux (a valid policy).

As for a non enterprise edition, that basically depends for the most
part on AMD.  If AMD can sell enough Opteron, or more importantly from
the non-enterprise view point, Athlon 64 machines to make a viable
Linux market then I would guess that Red Hat would support it.  The
question of course, and which only Red Hat knows, is what number of
machines need to be out there for a port to be viable.