Re: XServe G5 and Linux ?

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:36, Harald Welte wrote:

I see.  It's just that the XServe G5 is sold cheaper than the XServe G4
(at least the dealers have a lower price).  That's why I somehow feel
reluctand of buying an old machine.

Well, I don't quite recommend G4s in general any more ;)

Also, I can positively confirm that we've had a G5 XServe at the 20C3
(CCC Chaos Communication Congress) at the end of december.  It was used
to relay the A/V streams of the lecture halls into the congress network.

Strange... I'm quite sure they are only due to shipping about now.

So either the CCC has received an unreleased machine, or they are
already sold.

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1) Does anybody have experience running linux on the current G5
Xserve?

I expect the kernel to mostly work, +/- minor adaptations that should
be fairly trivial hopefully, except maybe for the thermal control.
But then it depends what they changed of the chipset. The above is
assuming the chipset is just the new northbridge rev and same IO chip.

mh. Unfortunately you're in .au now.  This means I cannot just buy one
of them and ship it to you for getting that initial work done.
Shipping, Taxes, Customs Offices, ... would definitely over-complicate
everything.

Right, on the other hands, there are chances that it just work :) And I
will probably get access to one soon anyway.


Ben.


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