Re:The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon
by marssaxman on Friday November 06, 2015 @02:08PM
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I got a PowerMac G5 recently from a friend who no longer needed it, because I always loved those big beasts and have fond memories of the time I got a prerelease model so I could port a codegenerator backend to it. Alas, I haven't found any practical application for the machine this time around, but I'm reluctant to pass it along as I'm afraid it'll just be scrapped.
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Re:The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon
by josh64 on Friday November 06, 2015 @04:37PM
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Put FreeBSD 10.x on it if you want a modern OS with great G5 support.
Re:The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon
by marssaxman on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:11PM
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Good to know!