Re: Mac, Intel, and LinuxPPC

From: Jack Malmostoso (jackmalmostoso_at_freesurf.ch)
Date: 06/08/05 

Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:00:49 +0200

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:35:36 +0100, Andrew J. Brehm wrote:

> Any thoughts of how this will affect LinuxPPC?

Actually the real power of PPC is in the server market. Let's face it:
apple products are used by a small minority of the Real World (TM), and an
even smaller share use linux.

IBM, Bull and others will continue selling PPC based servers, in which
linux will find its way. On the other hand, today's Xserves and such will
be converted to linux in a couple (or more) years, when Apple will stop
supporting them.

So I guess BenH and the other PPC hackers will stop worrying about sleep
on fancy notebooks, and maybe thinking about some "more seriuos" stuff. 

-- 
Best Regards, Jack
Linux user #264449
Now on iBook!

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