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Damn it Jim, I'm a computer not a doctor

Sun Microsystems has finally made the shift from key Opteron braggart to key Opteron vendor with the release of three new systems.

More: The Register

Posted 2004-07-28, 01:21 GMT by alan pae
 

ICANN adds IPv6 to root servers

Relief is on the way for the Web-address crunch, in the way of a technology that can provide every person and just about every device on the planet with an IP (Internet Protocol) address.

More: Infoworld

Posted 2004-07-23, 05:13 GMT by alan pae
 

Sun Micro posts $795 million profit

Sun said it earned 24 cents a share on revenue of $3.11 billion. The company added that its results included $1.6 billion in other income and $350 million in income related to its recent settlement of its lawsuit against Microsoft

More: CBS Marketwatch

Posted 2004-07-21, 03:14 GMT by Alan Pae
 

Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 2.1 released

The OpenPKG project released version 2.1 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software packaging facility. OpenPKG 2.1 consists of 495 selected (from a pool of 770) packages which include latest versions of popular Unix software like Apache, Bash, BIND, GCC, INN, Mozilla, MySQL, OpenSSH, Perl, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Samba, Squid, teTeX and Vim -- all carefully packaged for easy deployment on 21 different Unix platforms, including FreeBSD 4.10/5.2, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/3.1, Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Fedora Core 2, SuSE Linux 9.0/9.1, and Sun Solaris 2.6/8/9/10. The major technical efforts for this release were spent on the porting of all packages to five additional Unix platforms, the necessary adjustments to packages required by GCC 3.4 and the consolidation and packaging of the developer tool chain.

More: OpenPKG.org

Posted 2004-07-20, 13:12 GMT by Ralf S. Engelschall
 

Sun staff give birth to 64-bit Solaris on Opteron

"It's alive!" was the cry issued this week by the Solaris grunts at Sun Microsystems. For the first time, the engineers managed to get a true 64-bit kernel up and running on an Opteron box. This is a key milestone in Sun's ambitious plan to make Solaris a preferred operating system in the x86 world.

More: The Register

Posted 2004-07-15, 23:45 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

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