Re:Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Littl...
by Annatar on Saturday July 23, 2016 @04:55AM
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(Disclaimer: PPC Yellowdog Linux on PlayStation 3 used to be my primary development system.)
I'd prefer SmartOS, but that only works on intel, as PPC support was removed from the illumos kernel a long, long time ago. Nevertheless, reverting those changesets and getting it running again would be cool.
Next on the list, then, would be AIX, an operating system developed on POWER for POWER.
I also read that FreeBSD has some POWER support, but unlike AIX, it's nowhere near production quality material yet. FreeBSD would have been my next choice.
I'd prefer SmartOS, but that only works on intel, as PPC support was removed from the illumos kernel a long, long time ago. Nevertheless, reverting those changesets and getting it running again would be cool.
Next on the list, then, would be AIX, an operating system developed on POWER for POWER.
I also read that FreeBSD has some POWER support, but unlike AIX, it's nowhere near production quality material yet. FreeBSD would have been my next choice.