While you can't judge a book by its cover, you can often judge a development platform by its tools. By that measure, the AMD64 platform demonstrates a maturity that exceeds the youth of its release, in early 2003. The breadth of 64-bit tools available for the Opteron processor...read more.
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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