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Today on penguinppc.org: |
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Ben Herrenschmidt has pounded 1U of Apple hardware into submission. The |
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Xserve has booted and run GNU/Linux!. There are still some kinks to work |
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out, and your favorite distribution's installer may need some tweaks to |
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install (check with them). Support in the kernel source trees is |
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forthcoming. Word is, running in uniprocessor mode GNU/Linux returned |
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data from mysql databases 4 times faster than OSX running in SMP mode. |
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This was with the same datasets, same queries, same mysql version, and |
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same compile options. |
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There we go. What would we do without him? |
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--- Joe M. |
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