Linked by Bas v.d. Wiel on Thu 18th Dec 2003 05:12 UTC
A couple of weeks ago TerraSoft released preliminary 64-bit ISO's of their flagship product, Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 (YDL), especially for owners of Apple's new G5 machines. I was pining for a chance to get an open source OS running in 64-bit mode so I quickly downloaded the three ISO's.
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Bascule said -
"The biggest drawback of 64-bit Linux on the G5 right now is, in my opinion, the software controlled fans."
from the article -
"YellowDog Linux 3, obviously derived from RedHat Linux 8.0, came with working fan control. My G5 seems even quieter in Linux than it is using Apple's own OS but getting YellowDog to run in a usable way was quite an endeavour."
I'm personally shocked how fast Linux got support to control the fans, I had thought that might have been difficult and Apple would be less then helpful. Was the fan control code in Darwin 7? I dunno.
Wow, RTFA bascule
Well, color me impressed. Now the big question for me is... does IBM's XL Fortran compiler for Linux work on a G5?