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NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH
on LINUX 06/06/01 - Today's focus: Attaining Itanium Dear Wincenty Kaminski, In this issue: * Linux distributors show off Linux on Itanium * Links related to Linux * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ TECHNOLOGY & VENDOR NEWS ALERTS! You have very specific information needs about a technology or technology vendor and you subscribe to a newsletter or go on- line to find out about the strategic developments in this specific area. But how do you stay up with the late-breaking news? Network World now offers six very focused News Alerts to keep you abreast of the most significant developments of the week on LANs, Storage, Network/Systems Management, The Edge, Cisco and Microsoft. As an added service, if there's impactful, late-breaking news about one of these specific technologies or vendors, by subscribing to our News Alerts, we'll let you know what it is within hours. Subscribe today at http://nww1.com/go/ad082.html _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Attaining Itanium By Phil Hochmuth TurboLinux, Red Hat and SuSE, three Linux distributors that have been involved in the development of Linux on Intel's 64- bit Itanium processors, last week showed off the fruits of their labor with the release of Itanium-compatible versions of their respective Linux distributions. According to Intel, approximately 25 computer manufactures will release up to 35 new models of Itanium-based PCs this year. Intel says its new 64-bit architecture will surpass the performance of the most powerful reduced instruction set chip processors - found on servers made by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun - giving users a platform for high-powered tasks such as data-mining, multiterabit database management and scientific computing. While the IT industry in general has been anxiously awaiting the next-generation Intel processor, the Linux community has taken an exceptional interest in the development of the new architecture. Unlike the original development of Linux, which was done from the outside in, with code being written to conform to the hardware, the Linux development community has been working directly with Intel to optimize and fine-tune the operating system to run on Itanium. This integrated Linux/Itanium development effort should help shorten the learning curve of hardware manufactures for supporting Linux on their products. _______________________________________________________________ To contact Phil Hochmuth: Phil Hochmuth is a staff writer for Network World, and a former systems integrator. You can reach him at mailto:phochmut@nww.com. _______________________________________________________________ RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Check out the development of Linux for the Itanium http://developer.intel.com/design/ia-64/under_lnx.htm Red Hat http://www.redhat.com TurboLinux http://www.turbolinux.com Breaking Linux news from Network World and around the 'Net, updated daily: http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/linux.html Archive of the Linux newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/linux/index.html ______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE User Excellence Award If you've completed an interesting network project in the last 12 to 18 months, here's your chance to gain industry recognition for it. Network World is currently accepting nominations for its annual User Excellence Award. For more information and an online nomination form, go to http://www.nwfusion.com/nw/awards.html#excellence Deadline for submission is June 11. _______________________________________________________________ SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World e-mail newsletters, go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/news/scripts/notprinteditnews.asp To unsubscribe from promotional e-mail go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/ep To change your e-mail address, go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/news/scripts/changeemail.asp Subscription questions? Contact Customer Service by replying to this message. Have editorial comments? Write Jeff Caruso, Newsletter Editor, at: mailto:jcaruso@nww.com For advertising information, write Jamie Kalbach, Fusion Sales Manager, at: mailto:jkalbach@nww.com Copyright Network World, Inc., 2001 ------------------------ This message was sent to: vkamins@enron.com
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