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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. MacOS? by flatface · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds great, but "..Windows XP together with Linux or the Apple operating system" -- I didn't know that Apple would be releasing MacOS for other architectures. And I'm assuming it's not going to incorporate the PPC archtype.

    1. Re:MacOS? by bfischer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Duel? Why would you want your various operating systems to fight? Would this be like virtual battle-bots?

      Oh, you meant dual boot?

      Never mind.

  2. Cool by TykeClone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sounds similar to what IBM does with the AS/400 - allowing hardware subsystems to run different operating systems.

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  3. BSOD by rfrenzob · · Score: 5, Funny

    This doesn't mean that we will see Linux start generating Blue Screens Of Death does it?

  4. os/390 by deputydink · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Sounds a little like how those big iron mainframes run - virtualized os's playing together managed by hardware to a certain degree.


    Seems like another case of technology history repeating itself. Still, the idea is fantastic although i don't see how a company like microsoft in the article can really benifit from it.

  5. Suddenly all this news by geeveees · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One more to add to the list:

    1) hidden 64bit abilities
    2) 5-7 ghz processor
    3) multicore cpu

    All this to make people delay their purchase of an athlon64?

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  6. Re:Darwin by Raffaello · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?