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Is Linux moving to HP's NonStop (Tandem) platform? (LinuxWorld)
LinuxWorld.com.au
considers the possibility of Linux being ported to HP's
NonStop platform.
"Speaking at a recent Red Hat customer/partner event, Martin Fink, the general manager of Linux and open source business at HP, said: "Maybe one day you'll actually see Red Hat Linux running native on NonStop" He stopped short of saying the move would definitely happen.
HP has not formally committed to porting Linux to the NonStop platform, which runs on RISC-based CPUs made by Silicon Graphics. However, the vendor appears interested in running Linux on NonStop servers along the same line that IBM has moved its Linux operating system to run natively and as a virtual partition on the Big Iron."
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Is Linux moving to HP's NonStop (Tandem) platform? (LinuxWorld) Posted Jun 17, 2005 8:27 UTC (Fri) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link] I'm sure Debian could be made to work :) Now that the HP-PA Risc chipsare going, I hope someone will help at HP so that Linux can run on HP-PA 2 :)
Is Linux moving to HP's NonStop (Tandem) platform? (LinuxWorld) Posted Jun 17, 2005 14:32 UTC (Fri) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link] It's interesting that the article completely misses the fact that HP is migrating NonStop to the Itanium. I couldn't find the actual roadmap article (which I once read), but the plan was definitely to go to Itanium across the line.
Is Linux moving to HP's NonStop (Tandem) platform? (LinuxWorld) Posted Jun 17, 2005 12:39 UTC (Fri) by Incabulos (guest, #29637) [Link] MIPS cpus referred to in the article are designed by MIPS Technologies ( http://www.mips.com/ ) and fabbed by other companies like NEC, Toshiba and Philips. Not only are they used in current and past SGI servers and workstations, they were also used in DEC systems prior to the short but turbulent life of the Alpha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture
Alpha's lifespan Posted Jun 19, 2005 17:06 UTC (Sun) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link] the short but turbulent life of the AlphaA 64-bit architecture that was introduced in 1992 and ships to this very day has had a decently long lifespan, IMHO.
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