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Linux Supporting G5 Liquid Cooling System
Sandor writes "Apple's G5 is selling well and this seems to have helped the development of the Linux kernel on the ppc64 platform: shortly after the shipment of the dual G5 with the new liquid cooling system, it seems that Linux kernel is going to support it really soon."
So, this would be perfect for those moments when you're on a Mac and need access to a Unix system for some reason.
Oh, wait...
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As soon as my dual 2.5 gets here I had planned to throw linux on it as well, but I didn't know about this problem. Might wait a few more days then...
Is anybody booting their dual 2.5 with linux RIGHT NOW thats having a problem with this? Is it a show stopper or just more of an annoyance thing.
I hope you die painfully and alone.
Remember folks, if you want to keep your warranty, you need Yellow Dog Linux. That's the only Linux distro you can install that won't void your warranty, since these guys are official Apple resellers. If your warranty expired, I hear Debian has a great Powerpc port.
Not to troll...but what is the point of running Linux on the Mac, aside from the "because we can!" which is a valid reason. :-)
The only thing apple will drop the warranty from if you install linux on it is the iPod. If you put linux on your mac and have problems with it they wont provide software support, but will still cover the hardware. ihbt
I hope you die painfully and alone.
Why use VNC? Wouldn't this do the job just as well (or better)?
Coral Cache
Nothing to see here; Move along.
Well i use both to be honest. VNC has a few major features I like. For one thing I can get a full KDE Or Gnome Desktop. I can also shut down the mac and leave the KDE session running. I can also move the session between any of several screens.
On the minus side the way I have things right now I only have 15 bit color over VNC, when I tried to put it to 24 bit mode it gave me very strange colors.
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do i understand correctly that the fans and liquid-cooling system are not controlled by hardware? so if your OS crashes or otherwise malfunctions, then your CPU could overheat? does this seem like a really bad way to engineer things to anyone else?
If it's like the Xserve, in the absense of OS control, the fans will run at full blast (as mentioned by the previous poster). This is unbearably loud in the case of the Xserve, as I have experienced. It's probably bad for the fans, which will eventually fail. So if the analogy with the Xserve holds, you better not do it. You can try for fun for a few minute.
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It's not as interesting as running linux on a ratty copy of Moby Dick. Slow it down? The chip is sacred!
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I feel your pain. Everyone keeps dropping the term like everyone knows it. When I asked, no one ever responded. So seeing your question, and after finding this, I thought I would share. It looks like Coral is an akami-like system run out of NYU.
there need to be more sane policies like that one. like, say, printer manufacturers only not covering the refilled/off-brand cartridges themselves, rather than dropping coverage from the whole printer
nah, not gonna happen.
We've secretly replaced Slashdot with new Folgers Crystals - let's see if it notices.
dude! not fscking funny!
I'm sitting in the corner of a classroom full of kids checking out slashdot while a computer finishes imaging, and i checked-out your sig. You should really let people know that your sig-link has Work Unsafe images on it, not say "I made a funny".
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
is your sig from the Sage Francis song "makeshift patriot"? If you haven't heard it, I suggest you do. He's a cool guy too, used to listen to him locally and on the college radio.
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
is this like those other times when people have gotten linux running on their Palm or Xbox or clock radio?
I am not trying to flame but I just don't see the point - OS X is BSD. You've got X11. you can run all sorts of apps from the OS X command line (from apache to fink to vi) so what's the appeal of running linux?
All I coud figure is the desktop environment.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
At a Linux meeting I attended a while back a woman (an ex-windows user) asked the group, "about how much time one should allocate to installing a Linux network of four or five workstations in a new accounting office: an afternoon, a day, a weekend?" After some discussion, the final response was, "well... I suppose you could get it done in a day or two. But, really, Linux is a lifetime of fun."
The look on her face was priceless. And the guy who responded, along with the rest of the group, was absolutely sincere. They genuinely could not even comprehend the idea of creating a production environment and walking away once it was operational.
So, aside from the entirely reasonable answers given elsewhere, "Linux is a lifetime of fun."
Consider the more highly technical where you don't need a consumer oriented GUI and where you have an application whose algorithms are well suited to Altivec. For example the US Navy's sonar image processing.
Parent is off topic how exactly? I think the moderators don't like to hear the ugly truth, that Apple may have out Linuxed Linux and so they don't want to pay creedance to the possibility that it may not be advantageous to replace OS X with Linux on a G5 box.
"I am not trying to flame but I just don't see the point - OS X is BSD. You've got X11. you can run all sorts of apps from the OS X command line (from apache to fink to vi) so what's the appeal of running linux?"
Nerd cred. See, for a while it was cool to dual-boot Linux and Windows, but then all the nerds got out of college and bought a second PC. So then it became cool to run Linux and just run Windows on an old PC for running Quicken, MS Money, or updating the all important resume in MS-Word format. But after a while everyone realized that Linux doesn't need any real processing power because the only games that run on Linux come out long after the Windows versions, so everyone switched to Windows on the fast machine and Linux on the old one.
At that point all of the nerds with cool tech jobs decided to show off by running Linux on on Sun/Dec/IBM RISC machines they bought on ebay for stupid sums of money because at that time there were no sub-1000 Sun desktops. Then the dotcoms crashed, and over the past few years ebay has been flooded with cheap RISC machines from failed dotcoms, so people wanting to show off had to buy some other overpriced RISC machine to run Linux on. Where can you turn to get an overpriced RISC machine that runs Linux but still costs less than a Hyundai? Apple computers!
See, it's all about people trying (and failing) to look cool. It's just like guys who buy a $1000 1984 Corolla, slap on a "spoiler" made from scrap metal and old screws, and finish it off with $9.95 Wal-Mart hubcaps that are supposed to look like spinner rims. Of course, they're still dorks, they still get no pussy, but it impresses fourteen-year-olds who like to post to web forums about how cool they are and how they hate their parents who make them use AOL and won't let them dual-boot the family machine to a install of Mandrake 7.0.