[CentOS] Best Board Your Ever Ran CentOS On?

Ralph Angenendt ra+centos at br-online.de
Fri Jan 19 17:06:12 UTC 2007


John R Pierce wrote:
> 
> >If anyone had one of these ppc64 blades available for donation to the
> >CentOS team for our ppc builder machine that would be most appreciated.
> 
> Also, the Power5 stuff isn't quite the same as the PowerPC.   Same user 
> mode, same basic instruction architecture, but the -system- level stuff 
> is quite a bit different as I understand...   Certainly, a pSeries 
> server isn't a PC architecture machine.

Still there is a need for Linux on those machines - and that might be
the reason that Red Hat and SuSE (and others) offer Linux for PPC64.

Ralph
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