“On May 17, Red Hat Inc. released an alpha version of a complete
64-bit Linux distribution to developers. This edition, built
within the Trillian Project, is the first alpha public code release
of a full 64-bit Linux from kernel to drivers to such popular
applications as Apache.“
“The package also contains 64-bit development compilers and
libraries. This release–combined with Intel’s release of the
Itanium Processor Microarchitecture Reference, a complete reference
to the chip’s architecture–gives software developers the down and
dirty information they need to start serious Itanium development.
Indeed, even if you don’t have preproduction IA-64 systems in hand,
you could start developing with confidence for Itanium on 32-bit
systems.”