The Inquirer posted a story that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 will support AMD's Bulldozer power saving features
Kananov's stressing of Red Hat working "with AMD in particular" is a big endorsement of AMD's Bulldozer Opteron processors. Red Hat might be a relatively unfashionable Linux distribution for consumers but it holds considerable clout in the industry, with revenues exceeding $1bn a year, and it is the basis for the popular enthusiast and web site server Linux distribution CentOS.Red Hat reveals that RHEL 6.2 will support AMD's Bulldozer power saving features
Intel might contribute a significant amount of code into the Linux kernel, but Red Hat's public support for AMD's server chips shows that the company has support in the right places.
