MontaVista Offers Optimized MontaVista Linux Release
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| The company said the new MontaVista Linux release delivers
| commercial-grade quality, integration, and expert support. To enable
| device developers to rapidly design connected devices with the Intel
| Atom processor, the optimized MontaVista Linux release provides
| advanced capabilities such as programmable power management for long
| battery life, 802.11n connectivity for Wi-Fi wireless communication,
| Bluetooth connectivity, and fast boot for speedy device start-up.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-montavista-offers-optimized-montavista-linux-release-/2008/04/08/3375093.htm
IBM smacks rivals with 5.0GHz Power6 beast
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| The system will ship in May, running AIX or Linux.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/ibm_595_water/
The most powerful servers and supercomputers rarely run anything from Microsoft
and in a Web era they will become increasingly dominant (light front
end, 'fat' back end, including clouds). Microsoft has already acknowledged
this openly.
Related:
IBM Unveils Second Cell-Based Blade For High-Performance Computing
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| IBM offers the Linux operating system on top of Cell to provide a more
| flexible development environment than competing products that use a
| semiconductor device called a field-programmable gate array, or FPGA. Such
| devices are programmed once for specific functions.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201803074
PS3 available pre-installed with Linux
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| TerraSoft is now taking direct pre-orders with no delivery
| time guarantees for a Sony PS3 pre-installed with Linux,
| priced at $650.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7863481537.html
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