__/ [ Ian Hilliard ] on Tuesday 22 May 2007 18:42 \__
> It appears that Big Blue has a nice new really fast processor. This
> processor will of course not run Windows of any persuasion. On the other
> hand, at least according to the tags at the bottom of the article it does
> run Linux.
>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12337/53/
>
> There is a lot of pent up pressure in the IT industry to come up with newer
> and better hardware. The only thing that has been holding this up in the
> past was that it was not Windows compatible. It is important for Linux to
> become the dominant OS so that there can be technological progress again.
>
> Thanks to Linux, computers are starting to get fun again.
Another articles confirmed that this chip runs Linux indeed.
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