Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Jun 2008 21:52 UTC
Apple's PowerMac G5 has been out of sale for nearly two years now, which some find a sad thing. As we all know, the desktop PowerPC market is more or less dead by now, which means getting your hands on a PowerPC workstation is either difficult, or very expensive. Terra Soft Solutions, the company behind Yellow Dog Linux, is about to launch its YDL PowerStation, the unofficial successor to the PowerMac G5. "Not just a simple replacement, but a well designed, perfectly packaged, readily upgradable, and far, far, more open source friendly system. The YDL PowerStation is four cores of unleashed Power in a solid, affordable package."
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2005-07-10
I love the idea of this. Yellow Dog on an optimized machine would be very nice.
I wonder if you could get it to run IBM's Linux as well?
SLOF firmware:
http://www.openbios.org/SLOF
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-slof/
Power Systems: (IBM 970MP is not exactly POWER5)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER5
IBM Linux:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/index.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/browse/linux/?c=serversintro&n=Linux2...
Edited 2008-06-12 22:49 UTC