“Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the leader in open source Internet
infrastructure solutions, announced today the availability of an
early release of the Red Hat source code for the forthcoming Intel
Itanium processor platform targeting high-end servers and
workstations. This distribution enables the development of IA-64
software for the most intensive computing environments, from high
performance design automation to enterprise level databases. A free
download version of the code can be obtained at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/ia64.”
“Red Hat’s release of pre-production tools and software
represents an important milestone in the development of the IA-64
Linux platform,” said Michael Pope, Intel’s director of
e-Business Solutions Marketing. “This release will enable the open
source Linux community to accelerate their development of advanced
server and workstation applications for Itanium processor based
systems.”
“Intel recently announced the availability online of the Itanium
Processor Microarchitecture Reference, a guide for software
developers that details the functional behavior of Intel’s Itanium
microprocessor. This guide, together with the Red Hat code will
enable developers to create programs that will be Red Hat/IA-64
ready before the production release of the Itanium
microprocessor.”
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