Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM

Posted by Hemos on from the making-the-rounds dept.

vaporland writes "This story from Infoworld.com talks about IBM's new low priced POWER5 based servers which will ship with Red Hat or Suse Linux, but not IBM's AIX. My question is, will it boot up Apple's OSX Server?"

11 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. yeah but can it....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..something.. ...something... beowulf cluster

  2. OS X? by AKAImBatman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My question is, will it boot up Apple's OSX Server?

    Or can it run NetBSD? Can we get a Beowulf cluster of them? Does it run Linux!?! (Oh... wait...)

    *rolls eyes*

    BTW, I've got more GMail invites if anyone wants them. Just email me.

    --
    Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
    1. Re:OS X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "BTW, I've got more GMail invites if anyone wants them. Just email me."

      How do you receive GMail invites to distribute? I have two accounts and I haven't received any invites for me to distribute.

    2. Re:OS X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      GMail?

      Why would you want to inflict a Big Brother email system on your friends?

    3. Re:OS X? by jacoplane · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Google uses a special algorithm that analyses your mail to see if you are "cool". If so, it gives you Gmail invites...

    4. Re:OS X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      wait.

      I got my first batch of invites like two weeks after opening the account.

    5. Re:OS X? by Fred+Or+Alive · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      On the first page you see after logging in a blue bar appears above your inbox listings saying:

      You have 6 Gmail invitations. Invite a friend to join Gmail!

      The last bit is a link.

      I got my invites after about a week (less I think...), perhaps it's throughput based, seeing as I recived several megabytes of AVR development tools through email into the account. ;-)

      Either that, or it's random. Whatever it is, at this rate the world and it's dog will have Gmail accounts before open signups begin...

      --
      10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
      20 GOTO 10
  3. your question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "My question is, will it boot up Apple's OSX Server?"

    Let's think about it... think harder... harder ....

  4. Why is redhat still using 2.4? by SuperBanana · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    My question is, will it boot up Apple's OSX Server?

    A better question is "why is RedHat STILL not using the current stable kernel series?"

    2.6 has been out for how long, folks?

    --
    Please help metamoderate.
  5. Why???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Poem:

    Os X ... the meaning of PAIN!
    the way that I want you to DIE!
    SLOW death immense DECAY!,
    boot-times ECLIPSE you of your life!!!!

  6. It is almost *too* tempting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Every time I see somebody offering gmail invites with a visible email address (especially a gmail one) I just want to sign them up for all kinds of dirty newsletters. It's nothing personal, of course. It just seems like people here are going crazy for gmail accounts and people like you are pimping them out like a crack dealer. Again, it's nothing personal. For some reason, making people email you for the divine privaledge of getting signed up for a beta (mass-storage) email system seems...snooty to me. "Look at me, I'm special because I have a gmail account and you don't, but if you want one just swallow your pride and email me!" I'm not saying that is what you are doing, but that is how it comes off. I'd rather see the invites posted anonymously, but Google would probably invalidate them eventually (they have done so previously).
    And no, I'm not jealous. I've had several gmail invites come my way and have never used one. I definately don't need the space (which is basically the big feature), and my spam filtering solution works good enough. I don't use email that much, so the conversation tracking and other features just don't mean anything to me.
    I miss you, goat-see.