Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 347 from 2003/10/12
From: 1 AU, EU, DE/HU
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Let's be realistic. Linux is optimized for 386 and only runs absolutely stable on 386.
ROTFL. How about telling this to IBM, they run Linux on Blue Gene/L, which is PowerPC based, and it's currently the fastest supercomputer on Earth. Or go, tell this to SGI, they run 1024 processor single kernel systems on Linux (Itanium). Or go, tell this to the gadzillion router/switch/PDA manufacturers who run Linux on their ARM/MIPS/PowerPC/who-knows-what based architectures, and it's rock solid.
To make it simple: if you have stability problems with Linux on your PowerPC, it's a problem of your machine or your specific Linux setup, not a generic Linux problem usually. For example, Linus Torvalds used (and maybe he still uses) a dual-G5 to do his part of Linux developments. Probably because Linux is unstable on in it, LOL.
My own highly-hacked, highly-expanded PowerMac 9600 (Sonnet G3/500, 512MB, reflashed PC Radeon7000 PCI, PCI IDE card, PCI USB card, PCI sound card, PCI network card, three harddisks, CD-ROM, CD/RW, etc) server
runs for months without being restarted, also rock solid with desktop software running (i'm typing this on it, into Firefox), and Linux supports every single chip on the mainboard, which is practically undocumented to the public by it's manufacturer. And this with a Debian testing distribution, which really supposed to have bugs in it. Go figure.
