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| Thread ID: 77629 | 2007-03-16 15:48:00 | Planets Align For Linux Surge | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 533605 | 2007-03-17 03:29:00 | Without wanting to hijack this thread in a big way, what is the Microsoft- Novell Linux deal all about? Microsoft and Novell are going to be working closer together. Microsoft is becoming more concerned about Linux in the enterprise. It has a lot to do with MS, collecting revenue and Linux distros. HSBC to Standardize on Novell's SUSE Linux HSBC, the British-based banking and financial services group that has more than 125 million customers globally, is moving to standardize on a single Linux distribution: Novell's SUSE Linux. ADVERTISEMENT The HSBC move is a direct result of the technical cooperation agreement penned between Microsoft and Novell in November 2006. As part of the agreement, the two companies committed to make their products work better together, to jointly build, market and support new solutions to improve interoperability, and to deliver new virtualization capabilities. www.eweek.com |
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| 533606 | 2007-03-17 22:14:00 | Here is another one for Linux gurus Linux and symmetric multiprocessing Unlock the power of Linux on SMP systems developerWorks Level: Intermediate M. Tim Jones (mtj@mtjones.com), Consultant Engineer, Emulex 14 Mar 2007 As evidenced by major central processing unit (CPU) vendors, multi-core processors are poised to dominate the desktop and embedded space. With multiprocessing comes greater performance but also new problems. This article explores the ideas behind multiprocessing and developing applications for Linux® that exploit SMP. You can increase the performance of a Linux system in various ways, and one of the most popular methods is increasing the performance of the processor. An obvious solution is to use a processor with a faster clock rate, but for any given technology there exists a physical limit where the clock simply can't go any faster. When you reach that limit, you can use the more-is-better approach and apply multiple processors. Unfortunately, performance doesn't scale linearly with the aggregate performance of the individual processors. Before discussing the application of multiprocessing in Linux, let's take a quick look back at the history of multiprocessing. www-128.ibm.com |
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| 533607 | 2007-03-18 22:37:00 | Things are really cool when you compile your whole OS, so not just the OS are running 64-bit then every other game / app / browser / chat client / media player is 32-bit ;) Drivers arent as much of an issue by any stretch of the imagination either :D But still.. not this year... not yet... Maybe 2009 IMO |
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| 533608 | 2007-03-18 23:12:00 | Here is another one for Linux gurus Linux and symmetric multiprocessing Unlock the power of Linux on SMP systems developerWorks Level: Intermediate M . Tim Jones (mtj@mtjones . com), Consultant Engineer, Emulex 14 Mar 2007 As evidenced by major central processing unit (CPU) vendors, multi-core processors are poised to dominate . . . For an early example of multi processing, refer to "An infinite number of monkeys . . . " ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org) For a recent example of an experiment along these lines, see Public Service . :waughh: |
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