On Thursday 28 February 2002 17:52, you wrote: > Greetings, > Has anyone had experience running/installing Linux on an IBM RS/6000 > 43P? > I might be acquiring one (used, of course), and i want to know if there > are any hangups. > > thanks, > Lonni
I've had experience with RS/6000's since 1988 when they were released, but I've never tried to load Linux onto any of them. The hardware is proprietary and the driver base for Linux is gonna be limited. If I were you I'd check out the sites that deal with Linux for the PPC and see what they have to say about the 43p and Linux before I purchased one. IBM ships a version of Linux with the latest version of AIX. A single user copy of AIX is less than $100.00. The version of Linux they ship with AIX is for development... However, one again, I've never tried it. In the structure of my life , IBM RS/6000's and/or AIX = work and Linux/NetBSD and PC's = fun. With that said, RS/6000's are rock solid and AIX is beyond a doubt the Rolls Royce of all flavors of UNIX in existance (And no, this is not just my opinion, it's the truth... Businesses buy SUN because they cannot afford IBM. You can buy two SUN machines for the cost of one IBM machine). Best Peck _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
