Citrix says Xen to be preinstalled on servers
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| A senior executive with Citrix Systems Inc said on Wednesday that the
| business software maker expects to announce agreements to preinstall its Xen
| software on machines made by some of the world's biggest makers of server
| computers .
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| "There are announcements coming," Simon Crosby, chief technology officer of
| the virtualization and management division of Citrix said in an interview.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN0629159220080206?rpc=44
In other interesting news, LinuxBIOS is renamed and it's already available on
preinstalled on some boards, IIRC.
LinuxBIOS renames to coreboot
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| The free and open source firmware project LinuxBIOS was recently renamed - it
| is now called coreboot. The name LinuxBIOS strictly suffered the New Mexico
| problem ("It's not New, and it's not Mexico") as people confused it with a
| Linux only piece of software or the 20+ years old IBM invention.
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http://slashdot.org/~coresystems/journal/194856
Related:
http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
LinuxBIOS: The Forgotten Hero
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| This begs the question: is anyone currently using LinuxBIOS on
| their machines? You bet they are. According to one recent report,
| LinuxBIOS was installed on about one million machines and that
| existing number is expected to rise significantly, assuming the
| rate of growth remains constant.
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http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7694
Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project
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| The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open
| Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation.
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http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=31343
LinuxBIOS ready to go mainstream
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| LinuxBIOS is intended to provide a philosophically free replacement
| for proprietary firmware in chipsets.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/199208&from=rss
LinuxBIOS with X11 server, completely in Flash ROM
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| All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive
| connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the
| BIOS just fine)...
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http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/linuxbios-with-x11-server-completely-in-flash-rom
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