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Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by na85 on Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:40PM (#12607761)
If only I had ~8000 dollars to spend on a desktop I'd be waist-deep in porting Linux packages.
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Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by lallysingh on Thursday September 29, 2016 @03:43PM (#12608198)
AFAIK IBM's spent a good amount of engineering effort on making linux stuff run on power.
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Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by apaprocki on Thursday September 29, 2016 @04:03PM (#12608338)
Yes, in practice the only things that really need "porting" to POWER are low-level compilers, languages, runtimes, tooling, etc. that may have arch-specific code. Sometimes IBM does this (e.g. Google v8 + Node.js), sometimes not... yet? (e.g. rust).
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