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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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Nice.
t er-Holiday Tree.
Make sure you mount all of them in a single tall rack, and put it somewhere conspicuous in your office. Then, when December rolls around you can stick a star on top, turn down the lights, and use it as your office Allegedly-But-Not-Really-Nondenominational-Midwin
Mac diehards would never concede that anybody can design a user interface better than Apple
That would be because only one company ever did, and Apple bought them for $400M.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
It's not as interesting as running linux on a ratty copy of Moby Dick. Slow it down? The chip is sacred!
The Admin and the Engineer
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
I think your new here
I think you're new here. But let's do the math for fun.
800770
- 132545
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668225
668225 / 132545 = 5.04
Yes, it would appear you're more than five time newer in fact. Not that anyone is trying to quantify 'newbeeness'.
But to qualify the 'newbeeness', I took a look at your previous posts and I would say that you are still in search of an elusive score of 5 to improve the old Karma. Hint: you will have to do more than post "why not?" to get someone to mod you 'funny' or 'interesting' or 'insightful'. Try posting an observation about the subject, oh I don't know, like this one:
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.
"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.