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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.'"
Sounds similar to what IBM does with the AS/400 - allowing hardware subsystems to run different operating systems.
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There are already ways to run Linux on a windows machine, and visa versa.. (VMware comes to mind)
And with todays already beefy processors, it runs pretty good, albeit not perfectly..
It seems this would only impact the share of people who are already using VMware to do this sort of thing..
Who knows
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Certain properties of the x86 architecture make it a hard chip to "virtualize" (sort of partition the processor into two virtual processors), which is what VMWare does. Chips can be designed specifically to be easily virtualizable, making applications like VMWare almost trivial to code while being much, much faster. If Intel does somehow retrofit virtualization capabilities onto a x86 chip, it could be a big boon for Linux. An open-source VMWare clone could be written quite easily, and it would run Windows almost as fast as it would run natively.
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Stop posting this irrelevant link.
Darwin is a Mach based unix, on top of which one can run X Windows. It is *not* Mac OS X. Specifically, The Aqua user interface (which all native Mac OS X apps use), the Carbon APIs (which legacy Mac apps, like Internet Explorer, and Photoshop use), and Cocoa, (which newer Apps such as Mail and Safari use), are *not* open source.
Aqua, Carbon, and Cocoa are *not* part of Darwin. So, no, you cannot run Mac OS X just because there is an x86 version of Darwin. You can run yet another *nix on x86 with Darwin, but you cannot run Mac OS X.
Are people really this misinformed? How did parent get modded up?
Disclaimer: I work for Intel (in an area having nothing whatsoever to do with Vanderpool), but the comments here are my own personal opinion. That said...
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I saw a demo of Vanderpool at Intel Developer Forum last month. In the demo, the system with a single processor was simultaneously running some version of Windows playing a media clip (a Simpsons episode) while at the same time on another monitor, another copy of Windows was running and was rebooted in order to update a device driver. The video clip played on.
My take on this (having never heard of it before I saw the IDF demo) was some sort of hardware-assisted VM. It is definitely nothing to do with multicore, as another Intel compatriot noted here.
You can read the transcript of Paul Otellini's Keynote where he presented Vanderpool at http://www.intel.com/idf/us/fall2003/conf_info/ke
I don't know if there were specific presentations on Vanderpool Technology at IDF - if there were, you'll be able to find them at http://www.intel.com/idf/us/fall2003/index.htm after November 2.