New Project Indiana Details Emerge

Phoronix reports about new Project Indiana details.

It seems like it is going to be the new OpenSolaris (32-bit & 64-bit). It looks great and I cannot wait to use it.
For debugging Java JNI, GNU/Linux is pretty much useless right now, because gdb cannot use the new thread model. But using Solaris or OpenSolaris dbx debugs perfectly.
The Solaris Developer Edition 64-bit is a great OS for the time being, and will probably get updated shortly with a new kernel and new tools, look forward to that also.

Phoronix: New Project Indiana Details Emerge

AMD unveil new Quad 64-bit CPU

64-bit Quad-Core with: 64-bit with great performance, with enhanced performance per watt, and improved virtualisation.
The new chip has better a floating point architecture, a new memory optimiser to help with memory throughput on multi cores, hugely improved power management, and a smarter cache, and more.

More here : AMD Multi Core

ZDNetAsia: AMD unveils Barcelona chip
CRN: AMD launches Quad-Core
BetaNews: Quad-Core
BetaNews: AMD new power metric

AnandTech Quad Benchmarks

64-bit Java coming to Mac OS X Leopard

64-bit Java coming to Mac OS X Leopard

This is great news. The link provides more info. Basically it's 64-bit and resolution independent.

News link

New faster UltraSPARC T2 released

Features : 8 cores and 64 threads on one chip, integrated 10 GbE networking, crypto, and PCI-Express expansion.
Huge improvements in all CPU areas, from increased integer & floating point performance increases to more threads and more integrated components.

Sun: UltraSPARC T2
Sun: UltraSPARC T2 Features
TheRegister: UltraSPARC T2

64 Studio 2.0 released

DistroWatch reports that 64 Studio 2.0, aka "Electric", has been released. It's a Debian based 64-bit GNU+Linux.

DistroWatch entry 64 Studio
64Studio.com link
64Studio Press Release

GCC 4.2.1 released

The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.2.1

This release is a major release, containing new features (as well as many other improvements) relative to GCC 4.1.x.

GCC 4.2
GCC 4.2 changes

GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the
GNU General Public License. All future releases will be released
under GPL version 3. See:

http://gplv3.fsf.org

for more information about GPLv3.

Enabling Solaris 64-bit C++ warnings

To enable Sun Studio to print out full C++ 64-bit porting warnings you need to use +w & -xport64. I found that -xport64 on its own didn't do anything.

+w        Print warnings about additional questionable constructs
-xport64  Enable extra checking for code ported from 32-bit to 64-bit platforms

The warnings are extremely useful in cleaning up C++ code with regards to 64-bit portability.

Another useful option is :

+w2        Emit warnings for code with additional portability problems

See "CC -flags" for full options and usage.

AMD to introduce 45nm process AM3 CPU family in 2H08

AMD to introduce 45nm process Socket AM3 CPU family in 2H08

It also looks like they might drop the "64" from the name of some future CPUs, but they will still of course all be fully 64-bit.

Source: Digitimes

Intel Itanium to skip 45nm

Intel's high end 64-bit chip, the Itanium, to skip over 45nm and go straight to 32nm.
It's going to get more powerful & have more features such as quad-core.

Source: vnunet

Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/2007

A new release of this excellent Solaris edition.

Solaris Express Developer Edition

Lots of new features :

Solaris Express Developer Edition : Features

including:
New Sun Studio 12 C, C++ and Fortran compilers
Solaris (Solaris Express Community Edition build 64a)
and lots more.

Apple shows off new Leopard developer features

Xcode 3.0 has full 64-bit support, Xray looks exciting.
Leopard has DTrace
Leopard Developer

Leopard is fully ground-up 64-bit:
Leopard 64-bit

Engadget link Leopard 64-bit

Sun Studio 12 released

"Sun Studio software delivers high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers for the Solaris OS on SPARC, and both Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, including the latest multi-core systems"

Lots of new features including :

• Supports Linux
• Better x86-64 support
• New Sun Studio IDE
• Better multicore support
• Faster compiler and better code generation

Sun Studio 12
What's new

Fedora 7 released

New Fedora 7 release

New features include :

• Linux 2.6.21
• GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6
• Xorg Server 1.3
• Better KVM support
• New Wireless stack

Fedora Project
Fedora 7 Release Notes

Torrent links
including x86_64 DVD and x86_64 Live

AMD Performance Library 1.1 Preview

The Inquirer: AMD comes up with K10 performance library

AMD Developer Central

AMD Performance Library 1.1 Preview helps performance especially for 64-bit CPUs.

The next Windows Server will be 64-bit only

OSNews Link : The next Windows Server will be 64-bit only

It looks like the next version of Windows Server will be 64-bit only. That's a pretty good step.

Betanews: Windows Server 2008 to be the last 32-bit server Windows OS

GCC 4.2 released

The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.2.0.

This release is a major release, containing new features (as well as many other improvements) relative to GCC 4.1.x.

GCC 4.2
GCC 4.2 changes

IBM's Power 6 promises 5GHz boost

The Inquirer: IBM's Power 6 promises 5GHz boost

CentOS 5.0 released

Release for CentOS-5 i386 and x86_64

New features highlights :

• These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.0, Evolution-2.8, Firefox-1.5, Thunderbird-1.5, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.
• Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.
• Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

CentOS website
CentOS 5.0 Release announcement
Distrowatch: CentOS

Microsoft 64-bit website refresh

It looks like Microsoft has updated it's 64-bit section.

Microsoft 64-bit Computing Overview

Debian 4.0 released for AMD64

The new Debian 4.0 release of today officially supports AMD64 :

A total of eleven architectures are supported including: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386) and IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm), IBM S/390 (s390) and – newly introduced with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 – AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64).

New features include :

• Linux kernel version 2.6.18
• GNOME 2.14
• Xfce 4.4
• OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a
• Evolution 2.6.3
• the GNU C library, version 2.3.6
• the GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 as default compiler
• language interpreters: Python 2.4, PHP 5.2
• web servers: Apache 2.2, fnord 1.10
• database servers: MySQL 5.0.32, PostgreSQL 8.1

Release Notes
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released
Distrowatch entry : Debian
OSNews : Debian 4.0 released
Debian 4.0 (etch) review