From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267955AbUHKGGg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:06:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267957AbUHKGGg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:06:36 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:59884 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267955AbUHKGGe (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:06:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4119B768.6030807@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:06:32 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: knobi@knobisoft.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OT: Distribution for Power4 Machines References: <20040811055622.52917.qmail@web13911.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040811055622.52917.qmail@web13911.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the most likely off-topic post. Are there any distributions > out there that support IBM Power4 systems (pSeries machines)? SuSEs SLES8 is out for long, SLES9 for pSeries will be this month I guess. RedHat has a version for pSeries too. We are running SLES8 currently and it works fine except for a scsi bug with the imbsis controller caused by the 2.4 kernel, that is fixed in the 2.6 kernel. You will have terrible disk performance in certain situations with 2.4. So it might be worth waiting for SLES9. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049