Re: x86_64 in FC4?

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 17:42 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>:
> > I'm not yet sure whether we'll have PowerPC included - it would help to
> > have someone from that team give a summary of the status of rawhide on
> > that arch.
> 
> I just got an Opteron box.  It would be real nice if the FC4 test 1 disks
> included 64-bit kernel RPMS and a handful of 64-bit builds for the most
> speed-critical stuff (Perl & Python interpreters, Open Office, etc.).

It looks to me like Python and Perl are already both 64-bit executables
in FC3.  Open Office is a huge amount of work; I think Dan Williams was
doing some on it, but my impression was it was still fairly far away.