The 751 was simply the south bridge to the 750 chipset
Huh? The 750 is the designation for the entire chipset, not one chip. The 750 chipset consists of the 751 northbridge chip and the 756 southbridge chip.
Not exactly. Thunderbirds are made at AMD's Dresden fab (copper) and Austin fab (aluminum). All Durons are made at the Austin fab, which only does aluminum right now. The Dresden fab is the copper fab and is reserved for high-end chips.
No one built hardware from the ground up and said - "This is it! we have designed blah blah blah specifically for linux"
I know this isn't exactly at the level you are talking about, but what about the Rebel.com Netwinder? It was designed for Linux, and AFAIK the only thing that runs on one is Linux.
Um... I know Linux is virtually synonymous with Open Source in the minds of most/. readers, but since when does Open Source equal Linux? What about xBSD? If Discreet releases gMax under an accepted Open Source license, it is Open Source regardless of which platform they release it for. Of course, it is kinda cruel to not release it for Linux, but if it is Open Source, port the pig.
To me it looks vaguely IBMish. Note the square ridges from most of their current cases, the black color from their servers, pro workstations, and NCs, and the blue highlights (metallic IBM blue, anyone). Maybe Sony is challenging IBM.
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Um... I know Linux is virtually synonymous with Open Source in the minds of most /. readers, but since when does Open Source equal Linux? What about xBSD? If Discreet releases gMax under an accepted Open Source license, it is Open Source regardless of which platform they release it for. Of course, it is kinda cruel to not release it for Linux, but if it is Open Source, port the pig.
To me it looks vaguely IBMish. Note the square ridges from most of their current cases, the black color from their servers, pro workstations, and NCs, and the blue highlights (metallic IBM blue, anyone). Maybe Sony is challenging IBM.