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?
Well, no details from IBM as far as I know, but plenty of articles out there... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1197450,00.asp , for example, although I'm not entirely sure that a 4-way system would be under US$4,000... There's also a slashdot discussion, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0152245
The article describes these as rack-mounted servers -- however, if you look at IBM's current low-end Power4-based stuff, there's a pretty good chance they'll be available in the (really heavy) scary black towers as well. 'Course, it should be easy enough to rip the insides out and put them into something else...
Regards, -- Ciaran McCreesh mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk
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