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Linux on the Desktop

Posted by michael on from the penguin-in-every-pot dept.

Dhar writes: "Rob Valliere has posted a Windows vs. Linux review: "This review focused on Linux Red Hat 7.1 from a business user's view and attempted to answer my client's question "Can Linux be used as a replacement for Windows 2000". After an intensive hands-on Linux project lasting several months, I was able to provide my client with a pertinent answer to this question." I like the answer. ;-)" It's good that he covers the pitfalls he encountered; opportunities for improvement.

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  1. The real power of linux/unix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Instead of using complex and expensive superscalar and vector processors one can take another approach, like our company did. We chose Zilog's Z80A as our base processor. You can get them for 1c these days, so it's quite cool. Now we built a NUMA/XBAR system with 1,256,000 Z80s running a single image. Each processor has 64Kb of RAM for it's own, and runs a portion of the simulation that it pushes to the master processor, a single Intel Pentium III, that takes the data and creates the graphical representation in realtime. As the Z80 doesn't need a cache you'll never run into cache coherency problems. We developed a special kernel called Zix and developed a finetuned compiler and parallelizer to create the Solar System simulation.

    If enough people is interested I can post some more info and links.

    Sincerely, Mike Bouma (NASA engineer)