[rescue] Mac Appliance

joshua d boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 11:40:23 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:18:13PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > I get the impression that Linux is pretty usefull (but far from
> > optimized) on PPC machines, and that for the most part hardware
> > support is excellent (although still not optimized).  Tivo is a PPC linux
> > machine after all.  Mips and strongarm also seem to be getting somewhere
> > finally.
> 
> so how long till linux gets optimized?  ever?  just curious, not that i'd ever
> use it.

I guess it will get optimized when someone thinks they need it.  I mean,
obviously it works fine without being optimized in the TiVo.

> > Care to say which machine that is?
> 
> care to take a guess? :)

The Cray wouldn't run at only 33mhz would it?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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