On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Dan Armbrust wrote: > >> Just don't get confused by the two different types of 64 bit >> processors. >> >> As long as you are talking about AMD64, or x86-64 - pretty must all >> of >> the distros support it. This is what most people mean when they >> say 64 >> bit. Pretty much every common processor supports the AMD64 >> extensions >> these days. >> >> >> There is, however, another 64 bit architecture - the Intel Itanium >> chips >> - not nearly as many distros support that - I see that redhat / >> fedora >> does http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/IA64 >> >> Those processors are typically much more expensive, however. > > Right about IA64. But haven't the 64-bit Xeon's gotten a lot of > marketshare lately? I think what you have written is what I would > have > written a couple of years ago but now that I am shopping again, it > looks > like Xeon x5400 series are 64-bit quad-core chips that come on a lot > of > server systems. > > So will software compiled for AMD x64 work just as well on Xeon > x64? It > looked like the Ubuntu web page on 64-bit OS was making no important > distinction between AMD and Intel. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list And while you're discussing this subject, how does zLinux on IBM/S390 fit in? -Brady