News released on 20.07.2005

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Big "Brother"

Interesting things can be put in our equipment

See this link

First Distribution based on Open SOLARIS Realased

and is called:

SchilliX 0.1

Highlights:

• In 30sec fron bootmanager to multiuser login prompt (HD-boot)
• Booting from CD or USB-Stick.
• Installs to your harddisk
• Self healing Services

Software:

• cdrecord
• star
• bash
• bz2
• fakeroot
• gmake
• gpatch
• gtar
• gzip
• pod2man
• texinfo
• unzip
• wget
• gcc-3.4.3
• all Schilly tools
• smake as /usr/ccs/bin/make
• ... more to come

It can be found here

Developers

• Joerg Schilling
• Fabian Otto
• Thomas Blaesing
• Tobias Kirschstein

Fastest CPU for Games = AMD Athlon 64 FX-57

“AMD recognizes that today's games are single-threaded. Users who crave the absolute best performance on 3D games and extreme applications can experience realistic physics and lighting, as well as gripping artificial intelligence and sound, with the single-core AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor,” said Bob Brewer, corporate vice president, Desktop Business, Microprocessor Solutions Sector (MSS), AMD. “Since the AMD Athlon FX processor was first introduced, AMD has consistently delivered the absolute best performing PC processor for games. Now in our fourth iteration, the AMD Athlon 64 FX family of processors continues to remain unmatched in the industry, designed to provide even the most demanding gamer with reduced memory latency and increased performance.”

Technical specifications:

• Frequency: 2,8 GHz
• 1 MB L2 chache
• HyperTransport (2 GHz)
• Memory Supported - DDR533 (but not DDR2)
• Price - $1031 (for 1000)

SUN Ultra 20

Latest workstation from SUN based on AMD Opteron

• One AMD Opteron 100 series CPU that ranges from 1.8 GHz to 2.6 GHz (models 144, 148, and 152) with 8-GBps HyperTransport technology
• Up to 4 GB of PC3200 unbuffered DIMMs (ECC memory). Up to 1 GB non-ECC memory
• Up to two Serial ATA drives (80 GB or 250 GB), for a 500-GB maximum
• RAID 0 and RAID 1 support
• Six USB 2.0 ports
• Two IEEE 1394a (FireWire) ports

OS supported - Solaris, Linux, Windows

Video cards

• ATI Rage XL PCI Graphics Controller
• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI-Express Graphics Accelerator
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 PCI-Express Graphics Accelerator

Price: from $895

End of OS/2

IBM officially announced that OS/2 is out of the market

Mozilla Firefox

Now version 1.06 soon after release of 1.05 due to API incompatibility for extensions and web applications and several security issues