On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Brian Downey wrote: > > PowerMac G5 ;-P > > > > Actually, does anyone know if it will it run Gentoo-PPC? It should, right? > > Should do. The CPU (IBM PowerPC 970) is supported by gcc3, and the rest > of the hardware seems to be pretty standard. Don't know about booting -- > I guess it's the same as the G4s... > > I was thinking about getting one, but then I heard that IBM will be > releasing their own 970-based SMP workstations (Linux officially > supported, although I guess it'll be SuSE) for similar prices, so I'm REALLY?! A PowerPC IBM workstation in a similar price bracket to the G5....wow I would love to more than just see that. Has IBM released any other details on this system's architecture? Simon > holding on for another few months... Would be nice to be able to put in > a proper disk system, and also wouldn't have to pay for OS X that way. > > Regards, > -- > Ciaran McCreesh > mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
