Will Vanderpool Make Linux More Popular?

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.'"

Comments

Thumbs up to Intel

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you Intel! Now that I can run multiple operating systems simultaneously, i will run them at the same time.

Think of how excellent your boxen could be running OpenBSD on CPU#1 for security, Windows XP on CPU#2 for gaming, FreeBSD on CPU#3 for desktop and coding, and Linus on CPU#4 for continuous recompiling of the kernel.

This will be a huge timer saver for my fellow unix users. Hopefully they release the source code for the processors so the operating system can fully support them for the most efficient and enhanced Internet experience.

Wow! Hyper-OS REWLZ!

[TexVex]

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?