As much as I love PowerPC, and as great as it is that they’re doing this OpenPower thing, I don’t think that the first step should be to eliminate the competition. Perhaps they should put some effort in to taking back a large part of the market. Didn’t these guys read The Art of War?
The OpenPower Foundation, and how IBM and friends could oust x86 from the server room
I’d certainly take a look at a server if they sent me one; it looks like Debian still supports powerpc arch on wheezy. ;-)
5 responses to “I think perhaps they mean “could join x86 in the server room””
I think I’ll bring this G5 back to life…
cjac@foxtrot:/var/shares/charles-share/isos/debian$ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.5.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso
It’s Power not PowerPC… These are different beasts…
Are you sure? Pics or it didn’t happen.
Look at their website:
http://openpowerfoundation.org/about-us/
OpenPOWER Mission Statement
The goal of the OpenPOWER Foundation is to create an open ecosystem, using the POWER Architecture to share expertise, investment, and server-class intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers and industry.
Power, not PowerPC: the latter being a subset of the former… Technically they call that “Power Architecture”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture
Plus given what they want to share is Power8 (http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-downloads/), I wouldn’t call a monster 250 Watt, 4GHz, 12 cores, 96 threads thing something that could easily fit in a personal computer.
okay. I guess you’re right ;-)
At any rate, Debian will run on it.