PPC, oh yeah

Posted Jun 13, 2005 18:58 UTC (Mon) by alan (guest, #4018)
In reply to: PPC, oh yeah by dberkholz
Parent article: The Amazing Fedora Core 4!

um er, if you look around, you might notice that there are some third party ppc hardware vendors out there that are testing the market. Since the first wave is of a limited supply, I'm keeping mum until I purchase mine :o)

PPC, oh yeah

Posted Jun 13, 2005 19:42 UTC (Mon) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link] (1 responses)

There have been third party PPC motherboards around for ages (pegasos
etc.) but never at what looked to me like an competitive price compared
to x86. Are you saying that's changing? Interesting if so.

PPC, oh yeah

Posted Jun 14, 2005 3:44 UTC (Tue) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136) [Link]

> never at what looked to me like an competitive price compared to x86. Are you saying that's changing?

Terra Soft offers a "blade" server made by IBM which appears to cost less than the Apple Xserve. I'm not sure how this compares to x86 blade servers.

Also, in Terra Soft's announcement, they claimed that "Things are already in motion to enable a world of greater Power Architecture diversity." (If I remember correctly, around winter of 2002/2003, they had announced that they would sell the MAI Teron CX mainboard, also known as AmigaOne SE, but they didn't follow through on that.)