Re: Mac, Intel, and LinuxPPC
From: l'indien (l_indien_no_more_spams_at_magic.fr)
Date: 06/09/05
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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:46:03 +0200
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:00:49 +0200, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> 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.
The embedded PowerPC market is also wide but, as the chips are costless,
there is less money to get here...
But MPC5xx, MPC8xx, 405 & 440 are still widely used and, imho, will still
be.
> 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.
Great !
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