Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ed Clarke wrote:
The ppc64 arch is likely to become much more important once the Sony-Toshiba-IBM processor gets into consumer hands. The new Sony playstation is supposed to use it
We will have a ppc64 installer out in time with CentOS 4.2. We already have a ppc distro tree[1] that installs and runs fine on Apple Mac / IBM 32bit Power Machines.
[1] presently in beta stage, since we are building this to work with and continue to work with ppc32 hardware ( which RHEL does not do ).
The 32bit PPC release is for the older G3/G4 macs, no? I've got a pile of unused G4 400-800mhz powermacs just sitting around that I'd love to get some use out of, but I don't think they'd be very responsive with OSX tiger. My children's school has a lab full of Macs so I'm wondering if I donated the machines, installed CentOS and then volunteered some time each week to train someone how to maintain them, that might be better than having them collect dust at the office.
As for PPC64, has anyone done benchmarking between a ppc64 and OSX system on the same G5 hardware?
Cheers,