Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The announcement of Ubuntu Linux support on Sun’s SPARC platform appears to be the first result of Sun’s OpenSPARC initiative, which gave developers open source access to the company’s chip ...

Any suggestions on the best SPARC distros out there these days? <BR><BR>I'm presently using Gentoo on a V210 but after yet another day of trying to tweak my USE flags, unmask packages, wait hours for ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

I just finished setting up Aurora Linux on a bunch of Ultra 5's in my school's Bioinformatics lab. However, these workstations only have 128MB of memory and KDE/GNOME is a lot of overhead.

In light of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, enterprise customers on the Sun SPARC-Solaris platform face uncertainty in ongoing support and development, and should consider alternatives, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. will make its Java software available on an open-source basis and embrace Linux broadly on its Sparc-based computers, the company said Tuesday (May 16). The move, ...

Sun Microsystems partnered with a somewhat unlikely ally as it announced Tuesday that the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system (OS) would run on its latest Sparc servers, the ‘Niagara’-based Sun Fire ...

Oracle will port its Enterprise Linux distribution to Sun's Sparc processor, a move that could help it compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the high-end server business. Oracle will port ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems fulfilled a pledge Tuesday to release UltraSparc chip details in an effort to make it easier to bring Linux and versions of BSD Unix to its systems. In addition, Sun ...