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Wine 1.2 Stable Released

July 16th, 2010 · Administrator · Software No comments - Tags: , , , , ,

For those looking to run Windows applications on Linux, you have two options: You could either run Windows in a virtual environment, or try your luck with an emulator. The most popular, and arguably the best, of these emulators is WINE – and a brand new version has just been released.

As posted on the official announcement, this latest version of Wine, version 1.2, contains 23,000 changes and 3,000 bug fixes that have taken two hard years of development. Additionally, 64-bit application support has been implemented and a much-appreciated UI overhaul using Tango.

Wine has steadily become more and more reliable since hitting the coveted 1.0 stable release, and this release sees that trend continue. Whether you’re considering giving Wine a go, or a current user, you can either grab and compile the source code, or download the binary packages if you’re on a popular Linux distribution. If you need any help, Wine’s documentation is excellent as well.

Intel Ships 1 million Nehalem Processors, 32nm Chips Coming Early

April 18th, 2009 · Michael Struwig · Featured, Hardware No comments - Tags: , , , , , , ,

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Intel chief executive Paul Otellini announced at the Intel Q1 2009 earning’s call that over 1 million Nehalem processors have been shipped worldwide since their first inception in November 2008. Otellini also announced that the the new 32nm “Westmere” processors will be available “earlier than expected”.

Paul Otellini claimed that the milestone was reached thanks to the introduction of it’s brand new Nehalem-based Xeon 5500 server processors, which made up for around 50% of the 1 million Core i7 / Nehalem based chips:

“the real interesting is what happens on the dual-processor server product. About half the volume that I referenced was in servers, about half of it was in the desktop machine.”

This comes as great news, considering Intel has been feverishly reducing its workforce in an attempt to curb expenses.

Other great news for OEMs and customers is the unexpected announcement that Intel’s 32nm processors (and Nehalem’s successor), codenamed “Westmere” are expected to ship early, or more precisely in Q4 2009:

“We have pulled in Westmere, our fist 32-nanometer product family, and will now be shipping those products later this year,”

said Otellini at the event.

This caused a bit of confusion however. Intel announced that the Westmere chips will be shipped in Q4 2009, but when asked about an official introduction / launch, Intel maintained the notion that that is a completely different story – yet the Westmere chips are slated for a 2009 introduction – leaving everybody a little confused.

Minor announcements from the event include an update on Intel’s Larrabee GPU, which should be ready in 2010 and is currently in debugging.

Symbian Implementing new Release Plan

March 13th, 2009 · Michael Struwig · Featured, Software No comments - Tags: , , ,

The Symbian Foundation, reponsible for the popular Symbian OS that runs on smartphones, has announced that it will be changing its release schedule to what appears to be a 6 month cycle, according to the images published on their blog :

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In the picture, the yellow arrow roughly indicates the time period in which the code for a platform release is available.  The milestones in a platform release are overseen by the Release Council on behalf of the community:

  • Prior to functionally complete, the platform grows as new features are added by contributors
  • Between functionally complete and hardened the development community focuses on driving up stability of the platform by testing and contributing defect fixes
  • After hardened the release enters a more stable phase.  Contributed defect fixes will continue to be incorporated by package owners for around 12 months, but prime focus will be on later releases.