OpenSolaris Indiana Developer Preview 2 released

DistroWatch: Indiana

Indiana Preview 2 Released.
I must say that it is excellent. I booted from it and ran it as a live CD. It was extremely fast & stable. I look forward to its final release.

Phoronix: Tour of Indiana Preview 2

Solaris Express Developer Edition First Impressions

First Impressions

First impressions of the new SXDE are pretty good.
The upgrade process took around 1 - 2 hours, it fully upgraded to the latest release and the process worked a lot better than the previous versions upgrade system.

I rebooted (after sorting out my grub menu) and it seemed just as stable as the previous release. I'll use it properly soon. It certainly did upgrade the Sun Studio compilers and now NetBean is version 6.0, which is great.

Solaris Express Developer Edition Download

Solaris Express Developer Edition Free DVD

I tried out the free DVD option on the Sun website, I highly recommend it. The free delivery of the SXDE DVD only seemed to take a couple of business days.

Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 released

Another refresh of this excellent Solaris 64-bit edition.

Solaris Express Developer Edition

Lots of new features :

Solaris Express Developer Edition : Features

including:
New Sun Studio Express
NetBeans 6.0
Solaris (Solaris Express Community Edition build 79b)
and lots lots more.

VIA launches new low-power 64-bit processor

theinquirer: VIA releases brand new core
cnet: Via makes way for 64-bit chips
slashgear: Via Isaiah, 64-bit CPU with low power consumption
engadget: Via launches Isaiah: 64-bit low-power, high-performance processors
internetnews: VIA launches low power 64-bit CPU

Apple extends Boot Camp to support 64-bit Windows

TechRadar article

ArsTechnica :Mac gains 64-bit Vista support

New Valgrind 3.3.0 released

3.3.0 primarily contains tool enhancements: a restored and improved version of Helgrind (thread checker), majorly revamped version of Massif (space profiler), branch-mispredict profiling for Cachegrind, and new experimental tools (Omega and DRD). Also includes support for recent Linux distros (Fedora 8, openSUSE 10.3), scalability improvements (for gigabyte-sized applications), modestly improved documentation, fixes for 56 bug reports, experimental support for AIX5.3, and many minor refinements.

Valgrind current releases
Valgrind 3.3.0 release notes

IBM Power6 news

IBM is soon to launch the new 64-bit Power6 CPU.

VNU article : IBM bets on Power 6, AIX and virtualisation trinity

Intel unveils 9100 series Itaniums

Intel unveils a new Itanium series update

VNU article : Intel unveils 9100 series Itaniums
TheRegister : New Itaniums

New 64-bit Sun workstation

Sun Ultra 24: Overview
Sun Ultra 24: Features

Register: Sun introduces first Intel workstation in two decades

More Project Indiana news

eweek: Project Indiana Release Brings New Package Manager

Phoronix: Sun's Project Indiana Out By Month's End

This is looking like a pretty exciting Solaris 64-bit release.

AMD Performance Library update 1.1

AMD Performance Library update

APL Product Features

New! Video Decoding (H.264) support
New! JPEG support
New! AMD “Barcelona” Processor Optimizations
New! Sun Studio for Solaris support

Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07

Another great new release of this excellent Solaris edition.

Solaris Express Developer Edition

Lots of new features :

Solaris Express Developer Edition : Features
Solaris Express Developer Edition : Tech FAQ

including:

• Sun Studio 12 C, C++ and Fortran compilers and NEW D-Light, a GUI DTrace tool that simplifies using DTrace
• NetBeans 5.5
• Solaris (Solaris Express Community Edition build 70b)
• A superb new installer
• Updated GNOME and lots lots more...

This is an excellent distribution from Sun, amazing useful for developers. I install it on an x64 system and it goes on in 64-bit mode, but you can boot it in 32-bit mode also. I assume it can install on 32-bit x86 but I haven't tried that.

Sun Solaris Express Developer Edition Gets Usability Makeover

Update It seems excellent, my sound is now working. Overall the system feels faster.

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