[geeks] New POWER9 motherboard coming out...
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org
Thu Feb 7 21:02:39 CST 2019
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, Mark Benson wrote:
> IBM's thrown stacks of greenbacks at several Linux vendors recently to
> revive Linux on POWER. I believe most of the usual suspects have current
> long-term supported variants that support both endians of POWER, if you can
> stomach working with systemd.
Yes, but IBM is also going big on little-endian Linux on POWER. I was
at IBM and on the internal call when they announced it. There was a LOT
of "WTF?" on the internal chat during that call.
In any case... This might be the motherboard I need to get for the
Checkmate 1500 Plus case I backed on Kickstarter:
https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
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