On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Peter Czanik <pczanik@fang.fa.gau.hu> wrote:
Yes, there are some of them. RS/6000 machines were easy, when I tried them a couple of years ago, and Genesi boards are also no rocket science to install :-) The board mentioned is not yet a production board, but an evaluation board, a work in progress. I use it to check how SuSE works with this CPU,
It just seems like you have to go through a lot more on a PPC machine than an x86 machine.
and I'm quite impressed! It is just 1.3Ghz compared to the 1Ghz of Pegasos ( http://www.genesi-usa.com/pegasos.php ), but 1.5x-4x faster, depending on application, while using less than 2/3 of electricity. For example building the same kernel takes about 1/3 the time. It has an unaccelerated framebuffer in the SoC, and it can still play some of the 720p HD movies!
How does it compare to a Core2 chip? I'm running a Celeron DC E1200 1.6Ghz @ 3.2Ghz right now. The FSB is running at 1600 Mhz. The e600 looks like it only supports 533Mhz FSB. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org