Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Jun 2008 21:52 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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[2]: PPC - YDL
by mmu_man on Fri 13th Jun 2008 00:13 UTC in reply to "RE: PPC - YDL "
mmu_man
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2006-09-30

Lol indeed it looks blatently like that x86 IBM box ;) )

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RE[3]: PPC - YDL
by mmu_man on Fri 13th Jun 2008 00:53 in reply to "RE[2]: PPC - YDL "
mmu_man Member since:
2006-09-30

Actually maybe being able to reuse the design from lenovo could help bring the price down and democratize ppc again... but it seems far ahead.
The BeBox got mentionned... and anyone remembers pegasos ? :-(

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RE[3]: PPC - YDL
by kittynipples on Fri 13th Jun 2008 01:58 in reply to "RE[2]: PPC - YDL "
kittynipples Member since:
2006-08-02

Heh, I have this computer sitting next to me at work running AIX 5L

http://www.cce.de/homepage/siteupload/Intelli185/IntelliStation~*~@...

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