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Will Vanderpool Make Linux More Popular?

Posted by simoniker on from the keeping-up-with-the-vanderpools dept.

Digitaldonkey writes "New Scientist is reporting that Intel's forthcoming multi-core processor architecture, codenamed "Vanderpool", could undermine Microsoft's dominance by letting other operating systems run simultaneously more easily. From the article: 'The chip will allow future machines to run, say, Windows XP together with Linux or the Apple operating system as easily as today's Windows computers run Word and Internet Explorer simultaneously.'"

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  1. Wow! Hyper-OS REWLZ! by TexVex · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Such a hyper-OS would allow people using ordinary PCs to try out alternative operating systems, such as Linux, and the applications that run on them, without giving up Windows.
    Wow. If hyper-OS lets us do such wonderful technological feats, we should all bow down and worship Intel now!

    Or instead we could go back to some really freaking old technology called a "boot disk" to accomplish the same thing. Oh, wait, Knoppix and Lindows, among others, already allow this. Today.

    Seriously, guys, when you're writing marketing hype that looks like news try to be not quite so stupid and obvious about it?
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