OSS Projects

Intel has been actively innovating with the open source community to advance key Technologies that are relevant to Intel's business. From chipset drivers, infrastructure software to applications we are involved in several open source projects that span across enterprise to consumer electronics market segments.

Operating Systems

Intel has been working with the Linux community over a decade in making Linux robust and take advantage of advanced Intel® Technologies such as Virtualization, Manageability, Graphics, Power management, 64bit, Multi-core, drivers and more. Customers can find the latest drivers and other key patches on the kernel project @ http://www.kernel.org. In addition, since early 2007 Intel has been contributing to Open Solaris* to take advantage of Intel® Technologies.

Mobility

Intel offers mobile products from business laptops to consumer devices. In addition to enabling operating systems and drivers on these platforms, Intel is innovating with the community in advancing technologies to enhance the user experiences in various segments.

Virtualization

Virtualization solutions run multiple operating systems in virtual machines using Intel® Virtualization Technology while maximizing performance benefits of the multi-core platforms. Intel continues to be a significant contributor to the open source projects to advance virtualization capabilities in hardware and software in sync.

Performance

Intel continues to monitor and maintain kernel performance providing end users with a predictable experience, while enhancing the Linux and OpenSolaris kernel to take advantage of the latest advances in Intel architecture such as the revolutionary Intel® Core™ micro architecture. For more info visit http://kernel-perf.sourceforge.net* and http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/*.

Power Management

Linux efficiently manages power consumption on Intel systems by taking advantage of the energy efficiency features on the platform hardware from Demand Based Switching to multi-core aware scheduling. Intel is also instrumental in establishing industry standards for compatible solutions for power management. Intel continues to work with the community to develop technology, tools and tips for power savings via software. For more information, visit http://www.LessWatts.org.

In addition to Intel's Linux-based efforts, Intel contributes to the OpenSolaris Tesla project. For more information, visit http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tesla/*.

Multi-Core/Parallelism

With either single or parallel workloads you can take advantage of parallelism of the multi-core processors. Intel has engineered the Linux kernel to be multi-core aware, maximizing resource utilization in power savings or performance mode. We are also contributing to the OpenSolaris kernel in the area of multi-core support for Intel processors. And, we have been working with the Infrastructure software vendors to take advantage of multi-core. To extend and encourage the open source software community to parallelize their applications, Intel has open sourced the Intel® Threading Building Blocks. For info, visit http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/.

Graphics

The graphics experience for Linux users on Intel platforms is world class. Intel maintains and supports open source projects for our four generations of graphics hardware, including the latest Intel® 965 Express chipset that is designed to support advanced rendering features such as programmable vertex, geometry and fragment shaders. For more info visit, http://intellinuxgraphics.org*

Network and Wireless

Copper or fiber, PCI or PCI Express*, Gigabit or faster, wired or WIFI, Intel offers hardware that suits your needs, and the advanced Linux drivers to get the most out of your hardware. Intel actively supports and provides open source drivers for all wired and wireless networking adapters for a no-hassle, just works experience on Linux and OpenSolaris. To learn more, visit:

Manageability

Manage your IT assets remotely and securely with Linux and web services, enabled to take advantage Intel® Active Management Technology and other platform features. Key projects in this space are:

Firmware and Platform Integration

Intel strives to make the "out of the box" experience with Linux on Intel platforms world class by making open source drivers available, working with Linux distributions on testing and integration, helping hardware vendors test their system with Linux with Intel's Linux-ready firmware development kit. Intel has also been instrumental in creating a new standard for firmware interface. To learn more, visit:

Development Tools & Runtime Libraries

Intel's Software Development Products for Linux offer compiler, libraries, threading analysis and tuning tools to get the best performance and use out of multi-core processors. Each can be used as a drop-in replacement for the system compiler and easily integrate with popular developer environments like Eclipse for a seamless user experience. Intel is also engaged in the Open Source Development projects for tools such as Java Harmony, GCC optimizations and Eclipse. For more info visit: