Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM

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?"

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OSX Server?

[ack154]

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

I don't know about that, but I know that this does.

Answer

[Anonymous Coward]

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

NO.

No

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple will not allow OSX on IBM

Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes it can.

Can't use OS X

[digitalgimpus]

The reason why is Apple's Mac OS X requires Apple ROM.

I'm pretty sure at some point, someone's going to come up with either a hack for Mac OS X, or a way to fake out via some open source ROM.

I'd bet it takes some serious skills... but it's bound to happen.

And Apple's DMCA lawyers will be all over it.

Someone will still attempt it, because it would be one hell of a feat. I'm curious if PearPC might be moving towards that direction slowly.

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Re:Why is redhat still using 2.4?

[evilviper]

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

You obviously missed the story that 2.6 is NOT stable, and the whole 2.6 tree is never supposed to reach the level of stability. All version of Linux are -unstable now...

But perhaps more directly to the point... why should they use 2.6? The scheduler may be improved, but that alone isn't serious enough to warrant an upgrade.

There's still plenty of kernel modules that aren't working or just aren't stable on 2.6.