“In May Red Hat, Inc. announced 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 from Red Hat’s web
site: 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.”
“This pre-production version will include the Red Hat/Cygnus
compiler and tool kit. It is based on the tools and kernel
developed by the IA-64 Linux Project, formerly known as the
Trillian project, a group of companies that include Red Hat,
Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Caldera, CERN, SuSE, SGI, TurboLinux
and VA Linux. The full release of Red Hat’s offering will
coincide with the IA-64 hardware availability from Intel.”