The 7046-B50, 7025-F50 and 7043-150 could utilize Yellow Dog linux from their initial release. My question is has anyone been able to extend Yellow Dog, or other linux distributions to work on other PPC RS/6000 platforms?
Rick
It is not a question of model, it is a question of architecture. The 43P-150 and the B50 were rs6k-pc, if memory serves right, so all other models with a rs6k-pc architecture could utilize YDL too. What architecture the F50 was i can't remember, but probably chrp (IIRC it was a microchannel-system).
Todays systems support Linux in LPARs out of the box. RHEL, for instance, should work for these systems, as well as all the other distributions offered for the PPC platform.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
The F50 was the first of the CHRP systems and was / is PCI.
RHEL and SUSE are the way forward for IBM Power:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fliaam%2Fliaamdistros.htm
HTH