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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"But from what I've observed, it's nothing as smooth as running 32-bit Linux."
That's because PC are 98% of the market of Linux. So very few people work on powerpc even fewer on PPC64.
AMD64 is different because you could mixed normal x86 code and x86-64 code without problem. Speed up are around 20%. Mostly by the doubling of the number of register i beleive. But what about G5 ?
ALAIK PowerPC G5s also allow to run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.