Posted by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
on June 21, 2002 08:30 AM
>IBM would help Linux desktops much more if they would sell RS6K workstations with pre-installed Linux/PPC. Of course AIX has some good ideas, but overall it's a pain in the [neck] to build most of Open Source Software on it.
Of all of IBM's platforms though, when I looked at the RS/6000 line it was the one where people both inside and outside of IBM had the least interest. See:
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Re:Linux/PPC on IBM RS6K
Posted by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on June 21, 2002 08:30 AMOf all of IBM's platforms though, when I looked at the RS/6000 line it was the one where people both inside and outside of IBM had the least interest. See:
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/06/03/02525 2&tid=7
for details.
Long story short, no way will you see an official IBM RS5K Linux in the next year or so.
Steven
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