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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RE: This is cool and all but
by evangs on Fri 13th Jun 2008 06:51
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How much linux PPC stuff is there in the world that won't run on Linux x86/x64?
None. Practically all software that you run on PPC Linux has to be open sourced thus they will also be available on x86. On the other hand, there is a lot of stuff that runs on x86 that will not run on PPC. What made PPC Linux a no-go for me was the lack of commercial software (i.e. closed source) like GIS packages, MATLAB, Flash, multimedia codecs, etc. that ran on x86 Linux, Windows and Mac but didn't run on PPC Linux due to the lack of demand.
RE[2]: This is cool and all but
by fithisux on Fri 13th Jun 2008 10:17
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But there is gnash, octave,scilab, yorick etc.
Why commercial software is a no-go? I cannot understand it. Even open-office is available there and icedtea.
The only no-go is PPC prices. They are far more standard efficient and useful than x86.
These crazy Romans!!!!
Edited 2008-06-13 10:21 UTC
RE: This is cool and all but
by mabhatter on Sun 15th Jun 2008 05:11
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because PPC is still the rage in embedded systems so it's good to have a native box to work on. Also, many kernel level programmers consider Power PC an easier system to program advanced features for versus X86. They also like to have access to other platforms to keep things cross-platform.
RE[2]: This is cool and all but
by madcrow on Sun 15th Jun 2008 15:38
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How much linux PPC stuff is there in the world that won't run on Linux x86/x64?
The point is why would any one buy this if they can get a quad core x64 box cheaper and have every thing 99% of the linux community runs and most probably much faster.