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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.'"
What kind of fucking faggot would use anything but Windows? I for one can't standing dicking around with those gay, hard-to-use "alternative" OSes. NIGGER. (thrown in for good measure to get this a -1, Troll)
For fucks sake mods!!!1 You let another one slip through!
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New Scientist is a great magazine, but it's not really a tech magazine. That's why you get articles that says something like this:
"Intel's new hardware, codenamed Vanderpool, is significant because it cuts down on the amount of such trickery needed. "Vanderpool doesn't eliminate the need for virtualisation software, but it's going to make it perform a lot better," says Mike Ferron-Jones, Intel's manager of advanced technology marketing at Hillsboro, Oregon. For the moment, however, the company is not saying exactly how it will redesign the hardware to do this. For the moment, however, the company is not saying exactly how it will redesign the hardware to do this.
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."
(emphasis added)
So we're looking at a chip that may be a reality in 2008-2009, but since New Scientist doesn't provide any hard info on the child's penis except for the funky code name, this is all very up in the air. Virtualisation software works pretty good today anyway. You can easily try out any flavour of Linux or BSD on your WinXP computer (or vice cersa) using VMWare today -- without having to "give up" Windows (or Linux).
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If they're trying to emphasize running multiple operating systems simultaneously, then why not compare two similar products in their analogy? Word is a word processor. IE is a web browser. Would it have been that much harder to say something like "Word or OpenOffice" or "Mozilla and Internet Explorer"?
Not a major issue, just a curious observation.
The article starts out sounding like the multi-layer CPU will be 'DESIGNED' to run mulitple OSes, but then the article itself admits "Vanderpool doesn't eliminate the need for virtualisation software, but it's going to make it perform a lot better,"
(And I am ignoring that virtualization is spelled wrong in the article.)
So the CPU is going to optimize for VMWare or MS Virtual Server? Ok, sure, why not...
But this is NOT the revolution that the article makes it sound like at first.
It is just a faster CPU that will let you DO EXACTLY what you are DOING TODAY. Running multiple OSes with Virtualization software.
Geesh, nice reporting guys...