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Red Hat promises Fedora improvements

The upcoming Fedora Core 4 is slated to support computers with IBM's Power processors, which include Apple hardware. Projects such as Gentoo lure hard-core Linux programmers, while Sun is trying to build its own community of programmers around its... [21 Feb 2005]

Sun's Galaxy schedule slips

If you don't have a dual-core Opteron in the second half of this year, you're going to be at a significant disadvantage. That's when dual-core Opterons are set to launch. I think as dual-core [arrives], you will see broader endorsement," Richard said. [18 Feb 2005]

Fedora to get PowerPC support

Fedora Core 4 is scheduled to arrive on 16 May, with a first test version 21 February, Red Hat said in a mailing list posting this month. In the posting, developer Bill Nottingham said the company might also shift more software from the Red Hat... [15 Feb 2005]

IBM to sell supercomputing server

News Ordinary Power5 chips have dual processing engines, called cores, but the p5-575 chips have only one core active. That means more high-speed cache memory and communication bandwidth is available for that core. [11 Feb 2005]

IBM readies retail supercomputer

Ordinary Power5 chips have dual processing engines, called cores, but the p5-575 chips have only one core active. That means more high-speed cache memory and communication bandwidth is available for that core. [11 Feb 2005]

IBM puts Power5 in low-cost Unix server

All the models except those using the single-core 1.5GHz model have 36MB of high-speed cache memory, IBM said. IBM's Power5 systems can be sliced up to run multiple operating systems simultaneously, but doing so requires the purchase of extra... [09 Feb 2005]

Cell processor unveiled

The multi-core design will give software developers tremendous flexibility, Kahle said, allowing them to run multiple operating systems on the same chip and experiment with variations on grid computing. [08 Feb 2005]

Sun's latest chips near completion

With this approach, multiple computing engines called processor cores are combined on the same chip, and each core can juggle multiple instruction sequences called threads. McNealy said Sun will aggressively promote AMD's dual-core Opteron... [03 Feb 2005]

Is Sun subverting Linux from the inside?

But Sun's situation has not been helped by the fact that over the last few years its core customer base in the financial and telecoms sectors has been reining in expenditure and going for cheaper options. [01 Feb 2005]

Sun's open source licence wins final OSI approval

BSD became the core of open source projects such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and openBSD. Official open source approval also carries another benefit: IBM said last week it won't sue for patent infringement if any of 500 specific patents are used in software... [19 Jan 2005]

Red Hat reaches out with Fedora

In addition, the company is offering publicly accessible servers to automate the process of building Fedora Core and Extras software -- and ensuring that components don't conflict with each other. The company has also begun a project called Fedora... [17 Jan 2005]

How outsourcing saved one catering company

We decided to introduce one common platform, one application used everywhere in our Asia-Pacific businesses so we could shift our resources to our core business activity and shift our fixed cost to variable. [07 Jan 2005]

SGI counts in Montecito

Silicon Graphics plans to overhaul its high-performance Altix computers a year from now to accommodate dual-core Itanium processors from Intel. All major chip designers have or will release such dual-core processors to boost performance. [23 Dec 2004]

IBM seeks to make virtualisation 'ubiquitous'

Since IBM has been on the cutting edge of dual-core technology with its Power line, it would certainly be an embarrassment if companies such as Intel and AMD were to deliver dual-core merchant market products in 2005 while IBM didn't," said... [22 Dec 2004]

Meta rubbishes Gartner's licensing apocalypse

News In a study issued last week, Alan Butler, a research director with Gartner, said software licensing costs will rise by more than 50 percent in the next two years, due to emerging hardware trends like the move to multi-core chip architectures and... [29 Nov 2004]