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More Power to Gentoo Linux (internetnews.com)
Internetnews.com takes a
quick look at Gentoo 2006.0. "IBM spokesperson John E. Charlson
confirmed that IBM provided the Gentoo.org team with a POWER5 Open Power
720, which is hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab,
osuosl.org. Charlson noted that IBM has also worked with Gentoo to provide
discounts to a couple key PPC maintainers on 970-based (64-bit) Apple
Quads. Charlson also explained how IBM sees Gentoo is optimized for
POWER5. According to Charlson, Gentoo creates "stages" that are downloaded
as source by the user to be run on a particular architecture. These stages
are then compiled on the users box."
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