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IBM Launches Power site For Developers

Posted by Hemos on from the powering-it-up dept.

LeninZhiv writes "Celebrating five years of DevelopperWorks goodness, IBM has just launched a new section dedicated to the Power architecture. Initial stories include such goodies as "the developerWorks' Power Architecture challenge" and the Linux on Power Architecture toolkit. May this usher in a new era of community support for Linux on POWER outside IBM?"

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  1. Linux is available in PPC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    www.yellowdoglinux.com

    1. Re:Linux is available in PPC by bursch-X · · Score: 2, Informative

      ...and SuSe and Turbolinux and Gentoo and ROCK Linux and Fedora and CRUX and... do you want me to continue?

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    2. Re:Linux is available in PPC by jericho4.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

      POWER ain't PPC.

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    3. Re:Linux is available in PPC by bigredradio · · Score: 4, Informative

      To further elaborate, Linux on PPC IS similar, however, with Linux on Power you are more likely talking about 64-bit architecture (until the G5, there were no 64-bit Macs). Also the boot process for Macs and pSeries is very different. This is one of the reasons why distros that run on macs do not install on pSeries. (unless they specifically support pSeries).

      For an out-of-the-box install, that leaves you with SLES and RHEL. You can hack Debian and Gentoo to work. Yellowdog (AFAIK) does not support pSeries at this time, but plans to in the future.

      Storix Software PowerPC Development

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    4. Re:Linux is available in PPC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Actually you're wrong. IBM has started using the term "POWER" to cover the whole line, including PPC. You'll notice there's articles about the 970 there.

  2. Clearcase by Megane · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now if we could just get them to port ClearCase to OS X. It's already available for AIX, so the instruction set can't be a problem.

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  3. Re:Quick Question by tf23 · · Score: 2, Informative

    That feature's turned off (for the time being?)

    There have been a number of bug reports about it.

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  4. Re:On a hard, level surface. by bursch-X · · Score: 3, Informative

    Froogle finds some motherboards:
    http://tinyurl.com/6r5nv

    The Blade Center JS20 from IBM also looks nice:
    http://tinyurl.com/62z9p

    And there's the Pegasos:
    http://www.pegasosppc.com/

    Well, not much but IBM has been doing a lot to promote the PPC platform, blame the vendors.

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  5. Emulators by Usquebaugh · · Score: 2, Informative

    I rather think the gods are smiling on me. Earlier today I heard I am also to be the proud owner of an AS/400 for $0.

    QEMU and Pear both have useable PowerPC emulators. Hercules is still going strong.

    I think I'll mosey on over and pick up the chip specs. I'll see if I cannot con, I mean encourgae, a few AIX geeks to get that runnning under Qemu or Pear. Then a hop skip and a jump and I'll get the one emulator I want.

  6. Re:Lack of cheap deskop hardware by Zo0ok · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dont really know what you are asking for...

    www.pegasosppc.com has cheap PPC hardware.

    A Power-processor/system can hardly be cheap, simply because it is a more powerful and advanced chip than cheap chips (like x86/PPC).