On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:45:32 -0400, you wrote: >How well has Linux been supporting IBM's POWER processors? I would >imagine pretty well, since the Linux community always seems eager to run >on new hardware.
Quite well, but it really isn't community driven. Fedora has both PPC64 and PPC64LE available to download, though the PPC64 is being phased out I believe. The bigger problem is that while the OS is reasonable about all you can really say about the rest of the software is that it compiles - the lack of affordable hardware seriously restricts the testing and development that occurs. >Could it be that the Linux community hasn't been quick enough in >accepting IBM's contributions to Linux to support POWER, so IBM decided >to buy the largest member of the community to fix that? > >Or, could it be that IBM didn't have enough Linux expertise in-house to >support POWER on Linux, so they decided to buy a lot of expertise? This is purely a cloud play, and that is one of the reasons for concern. IBM has been in decline for a while, and the stock markets aren't entirely happy with the declining revenue for a number of years now. So this is an attempt to reverse things at IBM by getting into the Amazon AWS/Google Cloud/Microsoft Azure business which is a growing market. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf