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CNET News: Sun Releases Sparc Specs to Lure Linux

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Stephen Shankland
Feb 15, 2006

“Sun Microsystems fulfilled a pledge Tuesday to release
UltraSparc chip details in an effort to make it easier to bring
Linux and versions of BSD Unix to its systems.

“In addition, Sun President Jonathan Schwartz announced that the
Santa Clara, Calif.-based company will use the General Public
License (GPL) to govern the release of the chip design
itself…”


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