Comments

This is a partial listing of some of the comments I have received.

The current total number of signatures on November 20 is 624.

New Comments..

We have a port of our commercial quantum- chemistry software ("Jaguar") to MkLinux. Our Intel Linux version is currently almost as popular as the Unix workstation versions, because many academics find the price advantage of Linux systems over traditional workstations hard to resist. It would help Apple maintain it's traditionally large (but increasingly challenged) presence in universities if they did whatever they made Linux available to these people on the high-powered hardware that Apple is now offering. In many places, academic hardware budgets are still planned based on the prices of SGI and IBM workstations, but people are using the money to buy rooms full of Linux or Solaris or NT boxes instead. It hurts me to see Apple missing out on this.

Tom Pollard
Schrodinger, Inc.
121 SW Morrison, #1212
Portland, OR 97204

I am succeeding in swaying my brother to PPC because of the availability of Linux for PPC. I personally own 5 PPC's (for my large family) already, but I am finding myself attracted to the purchase of a G3 PPC if Linux could run on that. Please support Linux for the PPC.

I have one of the original NeXT machines and am looking to buy a new computer. My Mac-fanatic brother has convinced me not to go to the "Dark Side" and consider an Apple Macintosh PPC. Linux has become THE factor swaying me toward PPC. Apple's existing support for MkLinux is heartening. Please continue this support into your G3 offerings and beyond. Mhz & performance aside, we have all known all along that Apple systems had more value (built-in networking, SCSI, etc.) than their clone counterparts. Now, it seems that price/performance is equalling or exceeding that of the Wintel world. With Linux for PPC, it seems that I might have the best of everything -- Linux, MacOS, and Rhapsody (not it any particular order). Apple has made the world a better place and has many opportunities to continue doing so. As far as I am concerned, Linux support is one of the ways of doing just that. Thank you for your existing support for MkLinux, and keep up the good work.

I fear that PowerPC is largely dead now that Apple closes down the clone makers. Now Wintel rules the world :(

Older comments, from the original petition..

I have confirmed a report that an unamed manufacturer will be selling a CHRP motherboard, with 604e/200 processor and no RAM for about $450, and it *will* run Linux!!!

I would like to support a PowerPC on Linux solution. I believe that a vendor willing to produce PowerPC systems could benefit from a Linux following. It has been shown that the Linux community can be a powerful market force. Specific cases would include Diamond Multimedia and Xircom as vendors who have benefited from a change in policy concerning Linux. Any information that I can provide to justify a business case is welcome and available to be used.

My name is Todd Smith and I am a systems analyst with the Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, WV. We are a large regional hospital complex with approx. 1000 beds. In our shop are several IBM RS/6000 servers running AIX production systems with little downtime. We also have a PowerMac community that has suffered with the whims of Apple and the marketplace in general. The underlying stability of Linux coupled with a high-performance microprocessor would give us a low-cost, high performance solution for several in-house projects. In many cases, these projects will have to be implemented at higher cost using Intel machines running NT Server with an net decrease in performance and stability.

It is practically impossible to get approval for a new MacOS machine at Xerox, due to a Corporate Windows NT policy. It would be much easier to justify a PPC/Linux platform for server duties.

Keep CHRP Alive!

I use linux-pmac on a 7200/90, but I would like to see CHRP based PPC machines. From everything I have seen, the PPC is a better architecture than the x86, and I would hate to see it die. (I don't want to have to go back to the x86 for my next upgrade.)

Wanted: PPC 750 1Mb backside cache 64Mb SDRAM PCI EIDE Mini-tower 3-button mouse Mac ROMs *NOT* required

I like the cost/performance ratio offered by the PowerPC (look how fast the computers are with a stinking 50MHz system bus), and would continue buying them even if they could not run the MacOS.

PowerPC Linux is becoming a stable, useful operating system. I currently use it on my Power Mac and have broken down many compatibility barriers that I used to have with my MacOS system. Now I access files on my MacOS partition, DOS/Win95 drives, VMS network drives, and so on, all from my Linux-pmac system. I intend to continue to support the PowerPC architecture because of its excellent performance. My machine blows the doors off of a comparable Pentium box running i486 Linux. If Linux is supported by hardware manufacturers on the PowerPC, rest assured that I will be buying a new PowerPC-based machine within the next 5 years.

I purchased my Motorola StarMax 4000/200 system specifically to run and help with the Linux/PowerPC porting project. The fact that it also is able to boot to MacOS is only of secondary benifit since I don't plan on getting any MacOS software. The system ended up being much less expensive and having much more functionality than the HP xterminal I was originally planning on buying.

Love Mklinux Can't wait to get it on my 275mhz G3 Power computing when i get it. Running on 7100/80av so it will only get beter!

I hoping this petition helps keep the competition in the microprocessor market. This is necessary to force compnaies to continue improving their products. If Intel is allowed to monopolize the PC market, we would have a situation akin to that existing with PC software - Mainstream Mediocrity.
Keep the Power PC alive, so that Linux, Be and other OS's that take advantage of its features will have a chance to mature, and give Bill and his cronies a good run for their money, and hopefully at some point, break the virtual monopoly they have on the PC software market.

Join the revolution

Running Linux/PPC on a preproduction IBM LongTrail clone (CHRP)

I manage 10 software developers who write telecommunications applications on Linux for a commercial product.

I'm working on Red Hat based installers for LinuxPPC and MkLinux. It would help greatly if producers of PPC machines would help us. Apple is already doing so why not you?

Yay!!!!!!

The PowerPC is a great chip. Keep it in the PC market

I am running Linux on a Performa 6400/180.

The major reason in my decision in recently buying a PowerMac versus an Intel machine was the availability of Linux for the PowerMac. If Linux on the PowerMac was not available, I would have bought an Intel machine.

I was waiting patiently for CHRP so I could run Linux-PPC on a superior platform!!

We are currently using Linux on Intel machines for lab development of sw for next generation products.
Are trying to migrate to Linux on VME PPC machines (Moto and Force) for higher performance and closer conformance to design goals.
Need PPC750 port big time!

One should be able to choose any processesor they want and any operating system they want.

computers are powerful tools that allow us to do more, we should have the option to control the way in which we use them.

Gimme some CHRP !! PowerPC is a nice platform. I'd love to see it become highly viable for the consumer market.