No Wintel only Lintel in new Merced-chip
In the so-called `Trillian Project' hard is refashioned the coming Merced-chip (also known as an IA-64) by Intel manage to steam for Linux. The Trillian Project is financed by Intel and consists further of Hewlett-Packard, SGI, Cygnus and shortly IBM. The leadership is in hands of the Linux-developer V. A. Linux Systems.
The first open-source code must by the time the Merced-chip manage is, are published. To expectation is that beginning next year. Original is the Trillian Project through Intel and V. A. Linux Systems opgezet round a Linuxversie for the IA-64 high-end server- and workstationmarkt to develop. Since then is the project vigorously in size increased.
Analysts think that the suitable make of IA-64 furrow Linux a nice support in the back means for the operating system.
IBM meanwhile has announced that they a new Netfinity-product launches: a Linux-variant. Netfinity is a series of layer price Intel-servers. According to IBM, there is from the market of ISP many question to Linux-servers.
In combination with the servers, Piglet Blue offers helps a 90 days lasting Linux-support at that with all installation problems with Linux. The Netfinity-servers can be bundled with all known Linux-distributions, as by Caldera, Reason Was named, Turbo Linux or SuSE. Such packages will have been praised layer then a comparable Windows NT-solution.