YDL PowerStation - coming soon

[Posted June 6, 2008 by ris]

We are jumping the gun just a bit with this announcement, but with all the small Linux laptops on the market here's a larger box that will be available next week. TerraSoft Solutions will be announcing the commercial incarnation of a prototype previously demonstrated at recent OLS and LCA events. It may be the most robust and "open" PPC64 box available designed with Linux developers in mind. This box has a Quad-core PPC64, with up to 32GB RAM. It also features IBM's Slimline Open Firmware, which is available for download (registration required) and Yellow Dog Linux. The TerraSoft Solutions YDL PowerStation will be available June 10, 2008. (Thanks to Robert MacFarlan)

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 6, 2008 20:43 UTC (Fri) by leoc (guest, #39773) [Link] (1 responses)

Sounds like an IBM Intellistation POWER. I sure hope it will cost less, though. I could build a room full of nice Quad core Intel/AMD boxes for the price of one of those.

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 9, 2008 16:12 UTC (Mon) by amendola (guest, #20601) [Link]

Anyone else notice the GFX available on that thing?
 http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/intellistation/power/graphi...

OpenGL/graPHIGS accel?

Who would buy such a card? -- A modern desktop card should run circles around it, no?

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 7, 2008 13:24 UTC (Sat) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (7 responses)

Will AIX5/6 work on those ? Oh no, you get a license to run AIX only when you buy "the real"
POWER hardware from IBM itself. Not from some unknown YDL or Pegasos :>

And btw, will AIX ever run under PearPC ?

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 7, 2008 23:32 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (6 responses)

Why do you want AIX anyway?  We have Linux!

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 8, 2008 7:52 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (5 responses)

Heh. AIX is what big business demands. AIX/pSeries is what rotates big money between involved
parties. Linux and generic hardware would not put as much money into your pocket :>

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 8, 2008 11:21 UTC (Sun) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link] (1 responses)

Enjoy it while it lasts.

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 9, 2008 2:17 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Heh. 



And who says Linux only belongs on generic hardware? It can run on any sort of hardware you
want. I know that SGI has some 512-way machines (Numa, not clusters) that run Linux. Hell they
say the Altix 4700 supports up to 1024 CPUs if you use dual-core Itanium systems.
:)

AIX is legacy

Posted Jun 9, 2008 6:12 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (2 responses)

People are migrating from AIX, and from all proprietary Unix systems; and with good reason. Why pay more when you get less?

AIX is legacy

Posted Jun 9, 2008 21:10 UTC (Mon) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (1 responses)

Just imagine what would happen to IBM/HP/Sun(/SGI?) if all people were this smart :>

AIX is legacy

Posted Jun 9, 2008 21:34 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

That hardware vendors would have to make sure that Linux runs fine on their iron, instead of wasting time developing their proprietary incompatible versions of Unix?

Incidentally, (almost) all those vendors make good business selling Linux machines; and those that don't do so well can only blame themselves. Contributors (e.g. to kernel development) get extra points. Big business is learning fast to distinguish, or so it seems.