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Submission + - A Post-Desktop View of Apple and Free Software

Submitted by TheRaven64 on Friday January 12, 2007 @07:35AM

TheRaven64 writes: David Chisnall has recently written two pieces describing the post-destop world. The first, on InformIT, discusses how Free Software can take advantage of the transition. In this piece, he claims that Microsoft has already won the desktop war, and it's a mistake for the Free Software community to keep fighting it. The second piece covers how Apple's iPhone and Apple TV fit in to the picture. The article asks:

Apple has lost the desktop war twice now; once with the Apple II and once with the Mac. The iPhone and Apple TV are the first salvos in the post-desktop war. Where exactly do they fit in?

Submission + - IBM and Sun to use AMD Motherboards?

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TheRaven64

on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @10:08AM

TheRaven64 writes: "The Register is reporting that IBM is planning on using AMD Opteron motherboards for the POWER 7 and Sun is considering following suit. This is not entirely surprising, since both IBM and Sun are members of the HyperTransport Consortium, the industry group the specifies the mechanism used for interfacing with AMD's recent CPUs. This could dramatically lower the barrier to entry for people wishing to build a RISC workstation, and make it as easy to migrate between CPU families as it was to move between x86 CPU suppliers back in the Socket 7 days.

It is worth noting that Intel is pursuing a similar strategy by themselves, with plans for the Xeon and Itanium to be socket-compatible."

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