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 ...

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 ...

Sun is officially giving customers a wider choice on its SPARC servers with the announcement that it will support Linux on its new multicore UltraSPARC T1 systems. Sun has spent the last few years ...

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, ...

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. CEO Larry Ellison ...

On Monday, Oracle officially launched the Sparc T4 microprocessor and a line of servers based on the new SPARC CPU. Oracle Systems Executive Vice President John Fowler claimed at the rollout event ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux will edge a little further into the high-performance computing arena this week when Fujitsu Siemens announces plans to port the open-source operating system to its PrimePower family of servers.

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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. CEO Larry Ellison ...

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 ...