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IBM to support Linux on PPC
Andrew Morton
sent us a link to a techweb article that discusses
IBM and Linux on PPC.
Apparently they are going to start support Linux throughout
their product lines- including preloading Linux on their
low end RS/6000 boxes.
This news clip was mentioned a few days ago on the 7th.h tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/02/07/1821224.s
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but please don't get your hopes up too far.
there's something in the works. believe the rumors.
signed,
glad a.c. exists
I really hope that they will do more then just preload it. If they port all their wonderful tools (The VisualAge Development tools and compiliers) I would buy one.
C'mon! I think this article submission thing needs a little more editorial control! ;-)
News for nerds... if you don't get it the first time we'll post it a few more times a week apart until you get it
What is the RS/6000? Is it a PPC? Is it a 604? Is it SMP? Do I care? Help
I already posted that a week ago!
Heunique (sorry, lost my password)
Power PC, SMP. I care, 'cuz a customer sent me a brand spankin' new proc complex for a 43P, gratis.
(Seems IBM shipped the part out of the blue, cust. called IBM support and they told them to call us 'cuz they didn't know what to do with it.)
Now if I can just scrounge up the rest of the parts--Linux PPC, here we come!
slashdot broke my sig
Well, whatever's going on, I'm sure Rob's got a buttload of stuff to deal with, so don't get all huffy puffy about "how come blah blah blah"
Give the man a break
Good to see that IBM and the rest of the corporate world are still just a bunch of greedy whores.
Anyhow, what every happened to that massive alliance with SCO to turn out the premium OS for Merced? Looks like IBM is trying their damndest to make sure they are selling some kind of hardware with any OS.
I find it interesting watching all the HW makers starting to become SW agnostic. Didn't it used to be the other way around?
I realize that it would be twenty times as expensive as the equivalent processing power built around Intel chips, but the thought of an SP frame full of multiprocessor nodes configured as a Beowulf setup gives me a cheap thrill.
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then you'll just take the fall"-- Michael Longcor
hopefully this will mean that they will dedicate resources (or hire keating, whatever) to getting glibc up on powerpc? Currently, you have to use all these egcs and glibc patches--that is bogus. Does anybody know if they are going to actually free people like Edelson (for egcs) and/or hire people to make sure that egcs/glibc problems get fixed?
All of you freaks who are so put off by the overlap of this item with another one, you are giving us more evidence than we need or want that you are whiners, losers, ingrates, idiots and babies. Go read USA today for your tech nuze if you can't stand the idea that sometimes you'll be reading something that was not edited by a $75,000/year editor.
If IBM was really smart they'd support linux on ppc just because it gives a good platform for debugging powerpc-unknown-eabi apps. Are they going to target embedded developers? (Are they going to bring over Xlc? Or do a cross-compiler for eabi?)
I just started a new job where we have
4 RS/6000's four different model runs.
The newest one has 4 604e processors. I think they're 250 or 300 MHz each. It runs AIX which is
IBM's version of UNIX. I have to use winblows
at the job, but it's mostly as a dumb terminal.
Emphasis on the dumb.