HP's "The Machine" & the Future of Linux | Linux Today

HP’s “The Machine” & the Future of Linux

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Christine Hall
Dec 15, 2014

Linux++ will mainly be used by developers who want to get their software projects ready for The Machine, a completely new type of computer which HP hopes to introduce to the large scale server market sometime in 2018.

This computer will have such a radically new design that, in many ways, it’ll be a completely different animal from the machines we’ve been using since days when the word “computer” pretty much meant “IBM mainframe.”

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Christine Hall

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