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Cars To Navigate Via Multiple Operating Systems
News The environment provides single-chip support for Tron, a variant of the popular Japanese operating system for embedded devices, and Microsoft Windows Automotive, Microsoft’s operating system for cars.
[December 12, 2003, 10:40]
OpenOffice Bug Hits Multiple Operating Systems
News It's an OpenOffice bug so it doesn't matter what type of operating system you run; it allows you to run malicious software with the same rights as the user who runs OpenOffice. In June, OpenOffice users were warned about a worm called "Badbunny...
[September 25, 2007, 10:00]
Managing Multiple Operating Systems On HP Integrity Servers And Workstations
White Papers HP provides comprehensive system management tools for the efficient operation of your Integrity servers and workstations in a multiple operating system environment. This document provides general guidelines that enable users to manage multiple...
[May 30, 2004, 0:00]
OpenOffice Worm Hits Mac, Linux And Windows
News According to the Symantec Security Response website, the worm is capable of infecting multiple operating system platforms and is spreading. Once opened, the OpenOffice file (badbunny.odg) launches a macro that behaves in several different ways...
[June 11, 2007, 9:03]
HP Launches First Integrity Blade System
News The latest blade system from HP is the company's first blade to venture outside the x86 architecture and into the high-availability territory of Integrity engineering, and the first to exploit multiple operating systems and virtualisation in a...
[February 15, 2007, 16:02]
Single PC To Adopt Multiple OS
News Software giant Microsoft and start-up VMware are bringing closer to reality a technology for running multiple instances of an operating system on a single computer. The price does not include the cost of whatever operating system is being run under...
[November 10, 2003, 10:00]
SuSE Goes Live
News The next version of Novell's SuSE Linux product, shipping in mid-April, will let users run multiple versions of the operating system simultaneously, the company said on Thursday. The support for multiple instances of the operating system in SuSE...
[March 11, 2005, 12:30]
Managing Solaris Operating Environment Upgrades With Live Upgrade 2.0
White Papers Performing an upgrade of an operating system and the associated system software is one of the most time-consuming and error prone tasks facing system administrators. This article focuses on how Live Upgrade (LU) provides a mechanism to manage and...
[June 23, 2004, 0:00]
Xen Update Adds Desktops Graphics
News By including what's called a virtual frame buffer, Xen's controlling "host" operating system can capture video data written to a specific part of memory and then send it to the display. Xen lets a single computer run multiple operating systems...
[December 29, 2006, 8:14]
Microsoft Accelerates Virtualisation Plans
News Virtualisation, which today generally refers to the ability to run multiple operating system instances simultaneously to make a computer more efficient or versatile, is a hot area and one where Microsoft lags rivals.
[April 5, 2006, 9:20]
Great Server
Member Review Using Sun Fire V20z servers based on the AMD Opteron processor running the Solaris 10 Operating System and Linux, SLAC was able to demonstrate completely filling a 10 Gbyte/sec transcontinental network path for a sustained time with standard 1500...
[August 24, 2005, 16:15]
HP Announces Itanium Server Upgrades
News Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a suite of improvements to its Itanium-based Integrity line of servers, including new chips, support for a fourth operating system and new options for running multiple jobs on the same machine.
[January 18, 2005, 7:45]
OpenVZ Virtualisation Comes To Power Chips
News OpenVZ lets a single version of the Linux operating system be subdivided into semi-independent domains through a technology called virtualisation. OpenVZ software is useful for increasing Linux server efficiency, but most attention today is devoted...
[October 13, 2006, 9:40]
Xen Getting Multiprocessor Support
News But the current version is hobbled by the fact that each operating system can use only one processor. The top Linux sellers, Red Hat and Novell, have released test versions of their open source operating system products with tentative support.
[June 13, 2005, 18:10]
Avoid Big Bang Vista Upgrades - Gartner
News Generally the conventional wisdom suggests supporting all users on one operating system is cheaper than multiple systems, but that doesn't include the cost of getting to one operating system," she said.
[June 21, 2006, 16:40]
Sun Servers Get New Virtualisation Option
News At the other extreme, when Sun released Solaris 10 in 2005, it introduced technology called containers that makes a single instance of the operating system appear to be separate partitions. Sun will use Solaris as Xen's "dom0" control operating...
[October 17, 2006, 9:35]
Virtualisation In The Linux Kernel
News SWsoft is trying to get OpenVZ made part of the mainstream Linux kernel — the software at the heart of the operating system — and a part of the major commercial Linux versions, says Kirill Korotaev, a project manager at the company.
[January 20, 2006, 10:50]
Linux As A Technology Cost-saving Strategy
News Because Linux is priced at an enterprise level vs.the system level, it creates the ability to eliminate multiple copies of licensed operating systems in a company. By doing so, it allows a company to save hundreds, even thousands of dollars in...
[March 11, 2004, 12:30]
Solaris And Sparc Gain Virtualisation Focus
News At the other end of the spectrum, a Solaris 10 feature called containers lets a single instance of the operating system appear to be several - but that technology offers less protective isolation for different applications.
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
Red Hat And Novell Hit With Linux Patent Suit
News IP Innovation LLC filed the claim, in Texas, that Linux operating systems from both Red Hat and Novell have infringed US patent number 5,072,412 for a "User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects" that was filed in...
[October 12, 2007, 17:53]
