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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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  3. 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.

  4. 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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