Late-breaking Tech Highlights 1
Lots of little but exciting things going on lately in the tech world. Here are some of the best highlights (IMHO).
- GCC 4.0.0 released. GCC is the definitive open-source compiler, and it’s undergone lots of changes to tighten up all sorts of things. This is exciting news both for professional developers and those hobbyists/hackers who enjoy compiling their programs (or entire operating systems, e.g., Gentoo) from source. Scott Ladd has written a content-rich review of GCC 4.0.0 as it stacks up against 3.4.3.
- LinuxWorld carries the story of the 2.6.12 kernel, with its focus on trusted computing and security as well as better hardware support. Also very promising, though I hope the x86_64 arch is better-supported….
- AIM is going to be replaced by the now-beta Triton. This is irrelevant because of Gaim, of course.
More later!
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May 17th, 2005 at 19:04:48
x86_64 has been supported well for quite some time. I know of many, many servers running the x86_64 kernel with no problem.
May 19th, 2005 at 04:18:42
True for the kernel and server-necessary things, but I meant specifically support for compilation of certain programs from scratch, e.g., Gaim and certain MySQL applications. See specifically comments here for more info.