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Tech: Red Hat on AltiVec, MS olive branch

updated 10:40 am EST, Tue March 12, 2002

 
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Tech news: A "double-free vulnerability" in the zlib compression library affects all Linux variants and some BSD variants (potentially OS X), according to c|net; Red Hat announced G4 processor and AltiVec support for its GNUPro Linux toolchain and cross compiler development tools, allowing the development of more AltiVec-enabled applications; and Microsoft has offered an olive branch to the European Commission, saying it will open up some information kept secret, which was allegedly in violation of European Union law.


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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    Psyched about RedHat

    Hopefully, they'll work hard on optimizing Linux for the G4 so we can see more trustworthy comparisons of PowerPC vs. Pentium performance.

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    MS isn't an alleged

    offender, it's a convicted corporate felon - at least in the US.

    If MS is opening up some information kept secret it is hardly indicative of a new age of cooperation. It just means that had the case gone to trial, MS estimated it would lose and be vilified even further.

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    The EU is not the US

    I assume there's been some pressure on the DOJ in the US simply because MS represents alot for the US economy. I guess the EU doesn't have the same compassion about MS. And any attempt to diminish MS power could be beneficiary for european businesses and administration. I wish they had plans to developp their own standards. Why stick to Windows anyway ? The commission itself spends huge amounts of money on MS products.

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