What Linux Operating System Utilizes Dual Core Processors?

lets just put it this way, linux utilized dual cores before windows, so any distro made in the last 5 years support dual core.
 
Motoxrdude said:
Lets just put it this way, Linux utilized dual cores before Windows, so any distro made in the last 5 years support dual core.
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Sounds like how it is. Programmers for Linux come up with good ideas and implement them then Microsoft steals the technology to use it in their own operating systems.
 
2048Megabytes said:
Sounds like how it is. Programmers for Linux come up with good ideas and implement them then Microsoft steals the technology to use it in their own operating systems.
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but how else are they supposed to do it? If the open source devs came up with a good way to implement simultaneous multithreading, why shouldn't M$ use this as a base to improve upon their superscalar architecture? AMD was first to put the IPC rate before clockspeed, first to effectively put the memory controller onto the die of the chip, now Intel is in that game, and has largely copied AMD. Business is business IMO.
 
hermeslyre said:
I'm not saying you're wrong, but how else are they supposed to do it? If the open source devs came up with a good way to implement simultaneous multithreading, why shouldn't M$ use this as a base to improve upon their superscalar architecture? AMD was first to put the IPC rate before clockspeed, first to effectively put the memory controller onto the die of the chip, now Intel is in that game, and has largely copied AMD. Business is business IMO.
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From my understanding Microsoft is quite brutal on copyright infringements. Yet they can copy other peoples work and there is no issue with it.
 
If it constituted copyright infringement of the linux GPL, I'm sure M$ would have gotten hit with a DMCA Cease and desist letter. The MPAA recently did, it was a much larger afront, in which they created a cd bootable version of Xubuntu, with a network monitoring app preinstalled, they didn't acknowledge the GPL.

The point is, both the devs, and the linux community are very active in this enforcement. M$ is either is very good at stealing (i'm sure they are too), or they're copying in a way that isn't illegal, everyday business.
 
2048Megabytes said:
Sounds like how it is. Programmers for Linux come up with good ideas and implement them then Microsoft steals the technology to use it in their own operating systems.
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From my understanding Microsoft is quite brutal on copyright infringements. Yet they can copy other peoples work and there is no issue with it.
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Well, first, and this isn't a bash or flame, just observation... You only very recently started using Linux. You need to wait more than a couple of months in order to claim it as the Uber OS and take shots like that at MS.

Second, the majority (not all, but most) of software used in Linux distributions are Open-Source, meaning anyone can use/modify/distribute so long as certain conditions are met. It's the way of the world that you can start with something and make so many changes that it no longer resembles the original. That's when others can claim it as 'their own', as big software companies commonly do. However, they do have developers of their own who do make stuff completely from scratch. That's where the copyright infringement you mentioned comes into play when others try to take the new product and try to modify it again.
 
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