KB mentioned in IRC that I should speak up: Incident to comercial work, we have solved centos (RHEL) issues on Power5 and 390 hardware sufficient to run one of our products. It is not a full distribution rebuild, nor indeed, not even a selfhosting bootstrap set (that is on ym wish list, but ...) 390 trailhead: http://www.zSeriesPenguins.ihost.com one gets a 90 day slice access of a box holding RHEL 4.4 with no archive access The Chiphopper program get access to power 5, and more https://www.developer.ibm.com/isv/eserver/member/advantage/hardware_port.html z server and p server the chiphopper folks are really helpful mention my name, etc -- ask me if you need help or get stuck also see: http://www.ibm.com/servers/enable/linux/testdrive braindump ends ;) -- Russ herrold