Ubuntu 6.10 64-bit release

Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.10 released

There is an AMD64 ISO for both deskop and server AMD64 and are available at the download mirrors

Update: I could not install it. There appears to be an installer bug relating to "no root partition" message. It seems that the installer does not like to reuse a previous Linux OS partition and refuses to recognise it.

AMD 64-bit chip lists

Here are a couple of links to AMDs list of 64-bit chips.
You can compare model numbers, cache sizes, thermal requirements, etc.

Mobile Turion 64 chips
Turion X2 Dual-core model numbers

Compare desktop chips
AMD 64-bit Processors for desktops

Apple: 64-bit Leopard developer news

Leopard Technology Overview details some developer highlights from the upcoming "Leopard" Mac OS X 10.5.

The new developer tools like XCode 3.0 and xray (new GUI tool built on DTrace) do look impressive. There seems to be a large 64-bit update to various libraries and frameworks.

News items

PC World - IBM Cranks Up Its Server Chip, Forthcoming Power6 chip pushes speed to 5.0GHz

ComputerWeekly - Itanium poses the 64-bit question

Computer Weekly - VMware offers 64-bit virtualisation support

The Register - VMware does 64-bits in full

Porting Article - Extend your application's reach from 32-bit to 64-bit environments

IT Business - AMD to push 64-bit computing with approved motherboard platforms

News link: The Long Road to 64-bits

ACM Queue has an interesting article about the move to 64-bits

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