Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 07:17 UTC
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. will announce tomorrow world's first consumer priced ATX form-factor PowerPC motherboard with full Linux support. Terra Soft, also creators of Yellow Dog Linux, will be selling both the PPC motherboard and a fully equipped computer that will be capable of running YDL 2.3. This will give a new face to the consumer Linux landscape, as Linux effectivelly gets its own platform rather than getting installed side by side with other OSes. Check inside for two pages with pictures of the hardware, information and an interview with TerraSoft's co-founder, Kai Staats.
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First one question:
is it legal for Apple to say, you bought OSX but may only run it on this and that hardware?? Sounds crap to me.
I think there are a lot of advantages of having a PPC, not an Athlon: the hardware is inherently more elegant, so it doesn't have to emulate sucky x86 ops, which means less power, less latency, less heat. Also PPC programs should be nicer to compile. Anyone who has ever looked at gcc output on x86 knows what I mean. Talk about much less memory accesses here, which also should be good to heat/energy. Also the clean design of the PPC means context switches much faster than on x86. Some MorphOS guy I think, said they could do the microkernel thing on PPC because context switches don't slow the system down like they would on intel.
BTW, does anyone know if this board/CPU will allow passive, fanless cooling?? I'm already wetting my mouth...