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Gentoo/PPC64 Beta Live CDs Released

Posted by timothy on from the lest-your-hardware-go-unemployed dept.

pvdabeel writes "Gentoo/PPC developer, IBM employee and former PPC64 kernel maintainer Tom Gall has announced beta-level live CDs and stages for ppc64. The hardware supported by gentoo-ppc64 is PowerMacintosh G5, IBM pSeries, older IBM 64 bit RS/6000s (such as the model 260, 270, F80, H80, see linuxppc64.org for a complete list) and soon IBM iSeries hardware. Gentoo-ppc64 is the other side of the ppc equation, it is a 64-bit kernel as well as a 64 bit user space. We are the first linux distribution to offer a 64-bit top-to-bottom solution which is not a toy environment. This is a significant and exciting step as there is interest in cluster computing circles, users of java, and more generally those who have needs of large address spaces. It's fairly exciting to be on the forefront and continue to push the capabilities of linux on ppc64 forward."

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  1. G5 Xserves do support ECC memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Buy the Xserve and run it as a workstation. They are G5's that support ECC

    http://www.apple.com/xserve/

    Yes, you are paying for additional server-level hardware. But if such accuracy is that important to you, why not make sure the entire thing is running all the time and not crashing on you in the middle of such a calculation.

    Personally, for my development work, I would love to be running doing distributed compiles to a small rack of Xserves. Of course, I want Apple to extend their distributed processing to the whole range of Apple software and making it easy for others to do so. It would be great for FCP, Photoshop, iDVD/DVD Pro, etc. to be able to use a rack of processors without little more effort than setting a checkbox. Apple is trying to make niche areas like bioinformics that easy right now.