Sun wants Linux on T1

Posted by tadelste on Jan 28, 2006 3:35 AM EDT
ComputerWorld; By Patrick Thibodeau
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It may take some six to nine months before Linux is ported to its new multicore T1 chip, but Sun Microsystems Inc. clearly wants that to happen.

Sun has made T1 servers available to Linux developers and is working with Linux distributors, which the company declined to name, to develop the port (see ”Sun releases UltraSparc specs to open-source developers”).

And while a port may be completed this year, it will be a while before Linux on T1 appears in production environments; application certification and support will be needed as well.

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