Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 25, 2008 5:15 PM EDT
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Intel has announced that the OpenSolaris variant of Unix is now better supported on its Atom processors. The Atom support is being positioned to bring the joys of x64 computing to netbooks and other low-power computing devices, and it offers some of the best performance/watt in processing these days. Sun Microsystems, which largely steers the OpenSolaris effort and will use the distro as the basis of the next generation of Solaris, wants to be among the greenest of IT vendors. It also wants to find a new niche for Solaris, as Linux has done superbly on netbooks this year.

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OpenSolaris vs. its offshoots Steven_Rosenber 0 935 Dec 25, 2008 5:43 PM

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