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发信人: linuxrat (叫我老鼠错不了), 信区: Linux
标  题: Linux 3.0? [Forward]
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Jan  3 19:21:12 2000)

==============Begin: Nov 15, 1999=========================
   While the industry waits for Windows 2000, Linux backers Monday
   detailed upcoming futures for their own operating system kernel.

   With the Linux 2.4 kernel set for release by year's end, companies
   such as Caldera Systems Inc., Red Hat Inc. and TurboLinux are prepping
   major new distributions for the release during the second quarter of
   2000, executives said at a Comdex press conference here.

   The Linux 2.4 kernel, under the guidance of Linus Torvalds, will
   feature improved support for SMP, laptops and PCMCIA cards, and faster
   performance for file-system services, said several Linux backers. For
   example, the updated kernel will offer improved caching for file
   look-up and disk caching.

   Attendees at Monday's conference, however, said the release time frame
   is not set in stone. "It's possible Linus [Torvalds] will decide it's
   not ready for prime time," said Daniel Quinlan, a colleague of
   Torvalds who also works as an engineer at Santa Clara, Calif.-based
   Transmeta Corp.

   The next-generation Linux 3.0 kernel will offer improved support for
   smaller devices such as the PalmPilot and other PDA devices and, on
   the other extreme, better support for large-scale devices and systems
   such as Intel Corp.'s Xeon systems, Quinlan said.

   Sources at the show noted that Torvalds, the creator and director of
   the Linux kernel, is expected to discuss Linux futures and disclose
   product plans for Transmeta, a microprocessor start-up that has yet to
   ship product, at his Comdex keynote later Monday.

   Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp. remained conspicuously silent about the
   release of its final beta of Windows 2000, Release Candidate 3.

   After a press conference with Unisys Corp. and EMC Corp., Microsoft
   President Steve Ballmer said the Windows 2000 upgrade would be
   available in February, but told CRN during a brief interview that he
   did not know the status of the release of RC3, which executives
   promised for delivery in mid-November.

   During the press conference, Unisys revealed plans to ship a highly
   scalable system -- the ES 7000 -- running Windows 2000 Advanced server
   in the first quarter of 2000. The system, dubbed the data center of
   the next millennium, runs a 9-terabyte SQL Server 7.0 database,
   conducts 4,000 transactions per second and handles more than 3 billion
   Web hits per day. The system is slated to cost between 20 percent and
   33 percent of the cost of a comparable Unix system, said Lawrence
   Weinbach, Unisys chairman and chief executive.
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