Could a new Sparc chip ignite mobile Sparc laptop interest?

It was announce in January 2013 that Oracle and Fujitsu had extended their development partnership of Sparc technology with a new range of 'Athena' Sparc T5 processors for entry and mid range servers, along with Sparc M5 processors. These chips used for high end computing continues a roadmap set out by Sun Microsystems in Sparc technology. Following the takeover of Sun Microsystems the roadmap for Sparc technology remained uncertain until this announcement.

However the announcement has created a refocused interest in mobile technology for the sparc technology. Sun Micro systems sold rebranded laptops until 2005 when the company was purchased by Oracle. Specialist manufacturer Tadpole was acquired by General Dynamics who consolidated the range to specialist uses such as military field systems discontinuing large scale manufacture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole_Computer. Further  interest continued in Sparc by Accutech Ultrasystems who launched a range of Sun Ray end user notebooks based on SPARC / Solaris environments.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1

It remains to be seen if progression of leaner more effective notebook manufacturing techniques will once again open the business case for manufacture of Sparc based professional notebooks at a competitive point.

P.S. OiOS (Openindiana) according to Fijitsu has not yet been officially certified to run these chips for further information about support please visit kernel development project http://wiki.illumos.org

VLC Player as default player in Firer Fox

VLC Player on OiOS


As the industry slowly migrates over to HTML 5 formats many rely on Adobe Flash to play existing embedded flash content files.Adobe are not developing Flash Player in the wake of this transition but have opted for support for security updates.One option it to look at the VLC Player to opt for default playing of embedded files instead of Adobe Flash Player.To test this we headed over to Firer fox lan forums for answers at   http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=55544.

Using VLC on FF 3.6.12 we had mixed results with some files playing seamlessly,others needing prompting or not playing at all.We hope to now test more recent releases of Firerfox to see if seamless integration fares better on the more recent releases.

Opensolaris OiOS Open Source Wallpapers

Opensolaris Desktop Wallpaper Opensolaris is a free Open source distribution Produced by Sun Microsystems based on Solaris 10 used for delivering enterprise architecture and applications.It comes with a gnome desktop,compatible with many open source and propitiatory eco systems.

Many consider solaris 10 is the most desirable unix system in enterprise.OiOS has been developed under the the name of OiOS (openindiana).This system is community supported and is looking to expand its user,and development communities.Whilst planning to put into place further support services with the help of sponsors and Enterprise partners.

openindiana.org

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