On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi all, I'm late to this discussion but wanted to chime in as a hobbyist. My
main use is software development & exploring different architectures.
I run Fedora ppc64 BE on Power7 (IBM PS701, PS703 blades). Pretty sure it's
Fedora 25, had no problems installing and running.
I also have two IBM QS22 blades I'd like to make use of. Should I expect
Fedora to work on these?
No. Cell support was dropped a while ago.
Would like to run a graphical version on Apple G5 but had boot-time
trouble
last time I tried installing Fedora. Maybe the same issue Al Dunsmuir
mentioned? Ubuntu MATE mostly works on the G5, but it was an unpleasant
adventure getting it on there in a working state.
How much would glibc tuning make a difference, given my purpose of custom
software development? Most of my stuff is multi-threaded C++11 with vector
intrinsics. I'm not running databases or general-purpose software. As long
as the shipped compiler can generate tuned code for the host... isn't that
enough?
I'd think so.
josh