Vikings' OpenPOWER store is open

Rejoice, folks on the other side of the Atlantic: now you can buy the hardware you want from a source closer to home. Vikings' OpenPOWER s...

Chimera Linux test ISOs available for ppc64le

Chimera Linux, an upcoming Linux distro with a FreeBSD userland so you don't have to choose , now has downloadable test images for ppc64le...

SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER

I've always maintained (possibly by personal experience) that one of the natural future markets for OpenPOWER is one of the architecture's p...

CentOS 8 is an ex-distro (but AlmaLinux is not)

Among the many bad things that happened in 2021 was the official end of CentOS 8, which hit EOL at the end of the calendar year (but if yo...

91ESR with Baseline Compiler/Baseline wasm for POWER9

It's heeeeeee-re. I've completed the pull-up of the POWER9 Firefox JavaScript JIT to the current ESR, Firefox 91. As a bonus I also complete...

Firefox 95 on POWER

Firefox 95 is released , screenshot at right . The big new feature, besides speculative AOT JIT which doesn't apply to us yet , is RLBox , ...

Fedora 35 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II

Happy American Thanksgiving. While America watches football and eats deep-fried gobbler, we went to the Popeye's drivethru for chicken and I...

Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Space Cadet Pinball

I've always loved pinball even though in league play I was always pretty much bang-up average. My first experience was with a Williams Pin...

First POWER10 machine announced

IBM turns up the volume to 10 (and their server numbers to four digits) with the Power E1080 server , the launch system for POWER10. POWER1...

Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: System Shock Enhanced Edition

Yeah, I know we're doing a lot of FPSes in this series. It's what I tend to play, so deal. Tonight we'll be playing System Shock , the cla...