Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols, of [email protected] Reseller, reports that Red Hat has released an alpha version of Linux for the Intel IA-64 (Itanium) processor to developers. Vaughan-Nichols writes . . .

“On May 17, Red Hat Inc. released an alpha version of a complete IA-64 Linux distribution to developers. This edition, built within the Trillian Project, is the first alpha public code release of a full IA-64 Linux from kernel to drivers to such popular applications as Apache.”

“The package also contains IA-64 development compilers and libraries. This release — combined with Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) 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 reproduction IA-64 systems in hand, you could start developing with confidence for Itanium on 32-bit systems.”

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