“According to The Inquirer, the AMD Athlon FX-57 CPU is supposed to make an appearance, in third week of June, at the same time with unveiling of upcoming nV’s latest baby, G70. It’s rumoured, but as yet unconfirmed name is the GeForce 7800.” Personally, I’m not too excited about the FX-57. With the typical pricing, …
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AMD Details Early Quad-Core Plans
If you thought dual core was wild, check this out: AMD talks about their future QUAD core processors!!! read more | digg story
Fedora Core 4 now available!
“Ladies and Gentlemen, you may have *thought* you were using the latest and greatest in open source software, but folks, today we have something really, really exciting for you. It purrs. It hums. It mesmerizes. It is … FEDORA CORE FOUR. That’s right, the premier open source operating system has just turned 4 — four …
Linus Torvalds compares Linux and BSDs
Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, talks about his thoughts on the relative strengths, and weaknesses, of Linux and BSD, and about how much synergy, there might be between the Linux kernel, and the BSDs. read more | digg story
Can Apple keep Mac OS X off generic x86 PCs?
On Monday, June 6th, Apple announced that their future Macs will use Intel x86 processors, but they will not allow Mac OS X to be installed on non-Apple hardware. That said I presume they will use some hardware protection to prevent people, like me, from installing OS X on my Dell machine. Well I say …