Linus has a G5?

Posted by Scott Laird Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:47:35 GMT

It looks like support for Apple’s PowerMac G5 was added to Linux today. That’s nice, but I’m not really sure why you’d spend the extra money for a G5 over an Opteron if you’re planning on running Linux. The interesting bit was Linus’s reply; apparently there were a couple small bugs that he had to fix after merging, but then he said:

Anyway, with that fixed, it will compile and appears to work on the G5. Thanks. Although I did see it hang when I inserted a USB keyboard (in addition to the X problem). Hmm.

So Linus has a G5 handy. His or OSDL’s?

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  1. All said about 1 year later:

    Linux for Mac is available since 90’s. A PowerPC Linux optimized for G5 too!!

    US Army uses Apple XServe G5 with YellowDog Linux in all their submarines.

    Why?? Macs altivec make Linux to be able to work for realtime systems, not possible in x86 plataform.

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