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China-based PC maker to go with AMD64
News AMD's mainland ambitions received a further boost with a new deal to supply chips to China's second-largest computer maker.
Early tests give advantage to Intel's Conroe
News Preliminary results back up the chipmaker's boasts, but AMD fans point out that Intel built the PCs used to compare the chips.
Tags: Processors, Benchmarking
Intel makes performance claims, AMD rebuffs them
News Intel's prediction of a 20-percent lead in chip performance over AMD isn't sitting well with the smaller chipmaker.
Tags: Processors
Debian gets FreeBSD kernel support
News The open source Debian operating system has gained support for the FreeBSD kernel, allowing users to run the same OS on two different software cores.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Gentoo, Kernel, operating system, Debian, Linux Kernel, BSD, AMD64, kFreeBSD, Hardware
AMD invests US$7.5M in Transmeta
News AMD will receive preferred shares in exchange for its investment in chip company which financial performance has fallen lately.
Tags: Investments, Processors, Mobile processors
NetBSD 2.0 takes Xen path
Program The latest version of NetBSD has been ported to additional environments, including an open-source virtual machine monitor.
Red Hat upgrades security
News Update to Enterprise Linux 3 also includes support for IBM Power5 servers, new driver support and bug fixes.
Tags: Security, Business applications, Open source
AMD boosts Opteron performance
News The chipmaker announces three new versions of its flagship chip but has yet to release details about specific improvements.
AMD says its chips can boost PC security
News The security features will be activated with the installation of Microsoft's Windows XP update.
Tags: Processors, Security Management
Ubuntu Linux launched in Sydney
Program A six-month project involving 34 developers worldwide--including six in Australia--recently bore fruit with the preview of a new Linux distribution.
Tags: Open source
First OpenSolaris derivative in the wild
News The first operating system based on OpenSolaris has been released, days after Sun Microsystems freed the massive code base.
Tags: Operating systems
Red Hat releases Linux 5.2 Beta
News Red Hat has announced new beta versions of its enterprise and desktop Linux products, with improved virtualization and clustering features.
Tags: Linux, Servers, Open source
OpenBSD 3.6 tackles multi-processing
Program The next version of the secure BSD-based operating system supports multiple processors for both AMD64 and i386-compatible hardware.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, UNIX
IDC rains on Itanium parade
News IDC, an influential market research firm, has lowered its projections for sales of servers that use Intel's Itanium processor because of competition with chips from Advanced Micro Devices and others.
AMD to release its fastest desktop chip
News Advanced Micro Devices plans to launch its newest processor for desktop PCs in early May, sources have said.
