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Linux Supporting G5 Liquid Cooling System

Posted by pudge on from the cooooooooool dept.

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."

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  1. Ah hah! by avalys · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. Horse shit by Erect+Horsecock · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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    1. Re:Horse shit by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Informative

      Similarly, our Apple rep (showing off the insides of the new G5 iMac) explained that if you put a bigger hard drive in it, Apple simply won't cover the hard drive, and if the hard drive catches fire and melts the rest of the system they won't cover the damage. But the rest of your hardware is still under warranty.

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  3. Re:VNC? by Bastian · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why use VNC? Wouldn't this do the job just as well (or better)?

  4. Re:Sweet by Monster+Zero · · Score: 5, Informative
    I know that this is tangential to the upstream posts about problems with Linux on the Apple G5s, but I wanted to at least add the following:

    My automated installs of SuSE Enterprise Linux 9.0 on the dual PowerPC 970 (G5) IBM JS20 Blades work very very well. One of my peers installed several from the CD media without incident as well (except the boot partion has to be of type PrEP) while I was working on setting up the infrastructure for the auto installs.

    If you can get the academic discount and happen to have IBM PowerPC970 equipment, I highly recommend SuSE SLES9.

  5. Re:not hardware controled!? by fyonn · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know for a fact, but I imagine the liquid cooled system works the same way as the fans do in the currn g5's. the OS software overrides the bios control. the bios control on it's own will run all the fans at maximum (loud) speed, so without software support for the cooling system in linux, it'll sound like a jet engine.

    dave

  6. The real reason to pick Linux over OS X is ... by Nice2Cats · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... NetHack for OS X / Darwin only seems to come in the girlie man Qt version. Some things in life are simply more important than cool graphics, a consistant user interface, and easy to use multimedia apps.

  7. Re:The point by byolinux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    GNU/Linux is free software. Perhaps you only want to run ONLY free software on a very fast, well engineered computer?

    That's a reason why.

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  8. Re:The point by jcr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  9. Re:The point by nathanh · · Score: 4, Informative
    Last I checked, the Linux PPC kernel doesn't even support FireWire,

    Uhh, works fine for me. External firewire HDD hooked up to PowerBook G4 running Debian.

  10. Why? by amichalo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  11. Re:Noise by Lars+T. · · Score: 4, Informative
    Hardware: Power Mac G5 Developer Note: Fan Controller

    [...] If the FCU does not receive an update from the operating system within two minutes, it begins to ramp up the speed of the fans to full speed.

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