Linked by Jeremy T. Fox on Fri 11th Jul 2003 16:55 UTC
A recent article by Tony Smith from The Register titled "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit OS" caused a good deal of confusion with many people, including me. It is also caused a heated argument here on OSNews. The basic point of the article is that Mac OS 10.2.7 and 10.3 are not "true" 64-bit OSes, but the article does not clearly explain what a "true" 64-bit OS is. This had led to a lot of claims that the article is false or misinformed, rather than just unclear, which is certainly is.
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Yes, Linux has been ported to the Power4 for a while, the 970 is its little brother (less cache, added AltiVec - dunno what else is significantly different) so a port to the G5 should be no sweat. YellowDog apparently expects to have it done by the time Apple ships, spiffy keen. I'll be buying my PowerMac G5 from YellowDog, gotta love 'em. Oh, it should be noted that much of the PPC64 Linux work is done by IBM engineers themselves, internally not some outside enthusiast (ala Ultra/Sparc Linux, which Sun doesn't pitch in). I'm sure that makes a difference. After all, it is their hardware.