On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 08:49:50 -0600
Jeffrey Bastian <jbastian(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 02:11:03PM +0000, Clive Messer wrote:
> ... just trying to make a point, that I do not understand the
> concept of a community based distribution being released, only
> officially supporting big $$$$$, business class, enterprise
> solutions, rather than the consumer level boards which are already
> available.
Fedora is also available on ppc64 and s390x, and those platforms do
not have inexpensive hardware, but I'm glad Fedora is available on
those platforms for people who do have the hardware.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures
The Tyan OpenPOWER GN70-BP010 system is USD $2850, and I think that is
the most affordable system for Power8.
http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/index.html
http://www.tyan.com/solutions/tyan_openpower_system.html
I got information that the Palmetto P8 systems are not available any
more. Which gets the price to $10k for a system ... OpenPOWER
workstation, where are you? ;-)
Dan