Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat incompatible with older buses
Ubuntu Meerkat
The new version of Ubuntu to come, namely the 10.10 Maverick Meerkat will not run on processors that do not reach a minimum of architecture i686. In this way, opened the debate both in the community of developers and the community of users about whether this determination sharp risked not be equivalent to an act of discrimination.
Is that many may wonder why Ubuntu has established this arbitrary cut. Is that we all know that this is so, the family-i586 to give just one case, has a great importance in home computing. In establishing this selection Ubuntu people would be leaving out of potential users to a large number of people whose processors would not meet the minimum requirements for compatibility.
But this would be interpreted accurately. Not as much as the particular act of discrimination, and thus with the moral condemnation could conceivably alsarce against Ubuntu, but rather as one more case in an objective tendency of which is complex escape. Read more
Where is Snow Leopard?
In osnews.com echo some reflections about the future operating sitema Snow Leopard has been notably absent from the conference at Macworld Apple's last day yesterday. Apple has decided not to show any future development of Mac OS X and has received some criticism from analysts for this reason.
Apple has said previously that this release is focusing on improving the system performance significantly, especially to leverage the capabilities of new generation multi-core processors. Proof of this is the time especficación record OpenCL technology for it to be included in snowleopard.
No doubt the coming battle between Microsoft with its Windows 7 and Mac OS X Apple looks promising. If Linux can also permanently opened a hole in the desktop we have an interesting year in terms of desktop operating systems.
Intel debuts Core i7
"Intel Corporation has launched the most advanced desktop processor of all time, the Intel ® Core ™ i7. The Core i7 is the first member of a new family of processors: Nehalem, which have the most sophisticated design technologies ever developed b-firing performance on demand and maximize data processing. The Core i7 processor speeds video editing, immersive games and other popular Internet and computer users by about 40 percent without increasing power consumption. Widely heralded by the computing industry as a technical marvel, the Intel ® Core ™ i7 processor holds a new world record of 117 points, according to SPECint_base_rate2006 * debenchmark test that measures the performance of a processor. This is the first time in history that a single processor gets a higher score of 100 points. "
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