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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 jericho4.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

      POWER ain't PPC.

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    2. 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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  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: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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