Linked by Bas v.d. Wiel on Thu 18th Dec 2003 05:12 UTC
A couple of weeks ago TerraSoft released preliminary 64-bit ISO's of their flagship product, Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 (YDL), especially for owners of Apple's new G5 machines. I was pining for a chance to get an open source OS running in 64-bit mode so I quickly downloaded the three ISO's.
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Not all apps can be guarenteed to be 64-bit clean, it depends on the app. Linux, the kernel, has been 64-bit capable for years and years now - the Alpha port happened in 1993 I believe. Apps? Most, I'd bet, should recomplile fine but there will always be some that will have issues.
Yes, there is no such thing as new technology which works out of the box. 64 bit hardware is here, it works, it works well - I'm sure software people will update their proggies one by one as they get that hardware in their hands.