Sun Microsystems releases UltraSPARC T2 and Fedora Test 1 is out
UltraSPARC T2 Released
In December 2005, Sun released the RTL code for the UltraSPARC T1 under the GPL version 2. Soon thereafter they released the source for the IP stack. Today they continue this trend with the release of the UltraSPARC T2. The T2 is an eight core processor that with CoolThreads technology (allowing it to have up to 64 threads per CPU). It is also the world's first "System on a Chip", with 10e Gigabit ethernet, PCIe16, IO, and options for several encryption schemes with a "security coprocessor" on every core. Amazingly it takes a mere 60-123 watts to power.
The fact that Sun has taken such steps to open a technology such as this to the world needs to be commended. Sun knows where the future is, and is taking steps to make sure they are leading the way toward freedom with an open mind. Watch Johnathon Schwartz release the T2 to the world here. I am still working on the hundreds of pages of documentation that was released on http://www.opensparc.net earlier today.
For more information on the UltraSPARC T2 check out: http://www.sun.com/t2, http://www.opensparc.net, and http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T2.
Fedora 8 Test 1
Fedora 8 Test 1 was also released today, and I can only hope that when it hits stable it will have a better footing than Fedora 7 did. The release announcement is here. Fedora 8 will feature IcedTea (a port of OpenJDK) as the default Java (instead of GCJ), Nodoka (the new default GNOME theme), rsyslog instead of syslog for logging (there was a debate over rsyslog vs. syslog-ng, in any case whichever the user chooses to use is just a
In December 2005, Sun released the RTL code for the UltraSPARC T1 under the GPL version 2. Soon thereafter they released the source for the IP stack. Today they continue this trend with the release of the UltraSPARC T2. The T2 is an eight core processor that with CoolThreads technology (allowing it to have up to 64 threads per CPU). It is also the world's first "System on a Chip", with 10e Gigabit ethernet, PCIe16, IO, and options for several encryption schemes with a "security coprocessor" on every core. Amazingly it takes a mere 60-123 watts to power.
The fact that Sun has taken such steps to open a technology such as this to the world needs to be commended. Sun knows where the future is, and is taking steps to make sure they are leading the way toward freedom with an open mind. Watch Johnathon Schwartz release the T2 to the world here. I am still working on the hundreds of pages of documentation that was released on http://www.opensparc.net earlier today.
For more information on the UltraSPARC T2 check out: http://www.sun.com/t2, http://www.opensparc.net, and http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T2.
Fedora 8 Test 1
Fedora 8 Test 1 was also released today, and I can only hope that when it hits stable it will have a better footing than Fedora 7 did. The release announcement is here. Fedora 8 will feature IcedTea (a port of OpenJDK) as the default Java (instead of GCJ), Nodoka (the new default GNOME theme), rsyslog instead of syslog for logging (there was a debate over rsyslog vs. syslog-ng, in any case whichever the user chooses to use is just a
yum away), and improved security for Kernel Virtual Machines. For the complete feature list, look here. I will probably wait to use Fedora 8 until it is stable (I might try Test3). The projected release date for Fedora 8 is November 8th, 2007 (the release schedule is here). In my opinion, Fedora is still (and will continue to be) the leader for fully open cutting edge software (only a minor logo trademark issue keeps it off the GNU free Operating Systems list). I can only hope Fedora 8 will improve Fedora's track record.
posted by Philip Haddad @ 11:07 PM
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