Increasing numbers of embedded developers are turning to Linux as the preferred software platform to support compute-intensive applications in networking, wireless infrastructure, storage and imaging.

Firm's next product for Linux enthusiasts will support IBM's Power processor and allow users to run multiple OSes simultaneously. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Wayne, N.J. — MontaVista Software Inc. is extending the reach of its Carrier Grade Linux software into metro- and access-communication equipment designs by porting the package to three IBM Corp.

SuSE Linux 7.3 PowerPC Edition is now in circulation. The Linux operating system has been developed to run on Macs equipped with PowerPC processors. The collection includes 8 CDs that contain both the ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the only community owned and governed open source CentOS alternative, today announced a new stable release ...

Most Linux fans are not old enough to remember that Intel did not always dominate the PC processor market. In the late seventies, Intel won the chip war with Motorola and Zilog by offering certain ...

Two 1-GHz G4 MPC7455 processors, comprehensive hardware features, and PPC Boot and Linux—that's what comes with the A7400-PCI dual PowerPC PCI card. The A7400-PCI features 8 Mbytes of flash ROM, two ...

Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM’s AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors. The project ...

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The folks at SuSE Linux, a solutions provider in open source operating system software, say that SuSE Linux 7.1 PowerPC Edition will be available in early April. They’ll be supplying the latest Linux ...

Although Intel provides the greatest user base for Linux, many other architectures are supported. These include ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC and Hitachi. The availability of cheap x86 hardware ...

BOSTON--Red Hat's next product for Linux enthusiasts is slated to support two significant new features, the first for IBM's Power processor and the second for software that lets the same computer run ...