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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First of all, I agree; my dual G5 is probably the best computer I've ever bought. 8)
I'm interested in how much the native 64-bit Linux would help performance. I think that GCC 3.3 and XLC will generate binaries on OS X that use 64-bit math on G5s (when dealing with 64-bit integers, for instance), but still only allow for dealing with 32-bits worth of addressable memory. Come kind of mySQL benchmark or something between 64-bit Linux and 32-bit OS X would be interesting to me.