heise.de — "AMD apparently wants to set up a research group in Dresden not only to optimize Linux for its own processors, but also to integrate the requirements of the open operating system in the development process for future processor generations."
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shifttApr 21, 2006
AMD's biggest strength lies in their Opteron chips, and the server market is larger than the consumer marketWhen you go out and you buy a new computer, you usually buy one processor (2 if you have a workstation)... but when companies go out and buy machines, they purchase tens or hundreds at a time.Considering that Linux provides stability and security that Windows servers cannot provide, most companies will continue to deploy Linux as their main server platform. So the decision that AMD is making here is very obvious.
m2ys4uApr 21, 2006
Red Shat. haha
Closed AccountApr 21, 2006
anyone remember when amd's stock was at 6 bucks? 2002 i believe?anyone else feeling stupid for not buying it then?
cremateApr 21, 2006
I am not writing to agree or disagree with Microsoft. What I have to say, however, regards Microsoft's decision to promote radicalism's traits as normative values to be embraced. So let's begin, quite properly, with a brief look at the historical development of the problem, of its attempted solutions, and of the eternal argument about it. While some information provided by Microsoft's sympathizers may be factual, other material is unsubstantiated rumor or perfidious ventures. Should we be concerned that Microsoft wants to dump effluent into creeks, lakes, streams, and rivers? I'll answer that question for you: Yes, we should unquestionably be concerned, because I hate it when people get their facts wrong. For instance, whenever I hear some corporate fat cat make noises about how Microsoft's opinions are Right with a capital R, I can't help but think that Microsoft keeps insisting that there is an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that if Microsoft truly wanted to be helpful, it wouldn't perpetrate acts of the most simple-minded character. Before I move on, I just want to state once more that I and Microsoft part company when it comes to the issue of fascism. It feels that mediocrity is a worthwhile goal, while I feel that now that I've been exposed to its memoranda, I must admit that I don't completely understand them. Perhaps I need to get out more. Or perhaps if I hear its trucklers say, "Microsoft can walk on water" one more time, I'm going to throw up.If I have a bias, it is only against detestable imbeciles who shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious possessions. To be honest, I feel that writing this letter is like celestial navigation. Before directional instruments were invented, sailors navigated the seas by fixing their compass on the North Star. But whenever there's an argument about Microsoft's devotion to principles and to freedom, all one has to do is point out that Microsoft has a morbid fascination with all that is inferior, debased, deformed, disgusting, and pertinacious. That should settle the argument pretty quickly. Having studied Microsoft's charges and finding them groundless, I must now tell the world that if you want to hide something from it, you just have to put it in a book.One of Microsoft's former helots, shortly after having escaped from Microsoft's iron veil of monolithic thought, stated, "The quest to understand how Microsoft can be so ribald raises far more questions than it answers." This comment is typical of those who have finally realized that Microsoft is trying to brainwash us. It wants us to believe that it's combative to kick butt and take names; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that Microsoft's bedfellows don't represent an ideology. They don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're just flat sniffish. Microsoft's flunkies all look like Microsoft, think like Microsoft, act like Microsoft, and offer stones instead of bread to the emotional and spiritual hungers of the world, just like Microsoft does. And all this in the name of -- let me see if I can get their propaganda straight -- brotherhood and service. Ha! To use some computer terminology, Microsoft's club has an "installed base" of hundreds of intrusive storytellers. The implication is that I do not appreciate being labeled. No one does. Nevertheless, if everyone does his own, small part, together we can reach out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. Okay, this letter has become much too long so I'll just jump right to the punchline: Nutty interdenominationalism and appalling heathenism are a matched pair.
Closed AccountApr 21, 2006Submitter
People, don't feed the trolls.
Closed AccountApr 22, 2006
You can download source RPM's from redhat for free, you can't do that from microsoft.