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(Including frame buffer support to actually get X up and working!) </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/getstarted.php" TARGET="_top" > Linux on the RS/6000 7043-140</A > another old but still popular IBM PReP Workstation. Page by Leigh Brown. This page also has E15 frame buffer patches for Linux-2.4. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://penguinppc.org/~hollis/linux/carolina/" TARGET="_top" > Hollis Blanchard's page</A > for installing Linux on the PowerSeries 850. Add this to David's and my pages, and you should be able to get LinuxPPC-2000 Q4 up on the 850 too :-) </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://lists.linuxppc.org" TARGET="_top" >The linuxppc mailing lists.</A > Especially interesting is of course the workstation list. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppclinux" TARGET="_top" >PowerPC Linux</A > project pages at <A HREF="http://www.sourceforge.net" TARGET="_top" >sourceforge.net</A > </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/ppc/" TARGET="_top" > IBM's Linux on PPC project pages</A > </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://ppc.linux.or.jp/~aoshimak/index.html" TARGET="_top" > More info about Linux on PReP machines</A > by Kazunori Aoshima </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://www2.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?xh=OE4LvmcyB*zbt11USenGnF9332&request=salesmanual&parms=H%5f7248%2d132&xhi=salesmanual%5e&xfr=F" TARGET="_top" > IBM Sales Manual for the 7248-133</A > (Detailed description) </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/rs6000/technology/spec/" TARGET="_top" > PReP specification documents</A > from IBM </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/rs6000/technology/spec/chrp/" TARGET="_top" > CHRP specification documents</A > from IBM </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://penguinppc.org/embedded/cross-compiling" TARGET="_top" > Cross Development for Linux/PPC from i386</A > by Matt Porter </P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="OTHER-FLAVOURS" ></A >Installing other operating systems on the 7248</H2 ><P > <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Of course, AIX should work like a dream...</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Rumors have been spread that once up in a time, even Window NT and Sun Solaris could run on this machine. Oh, well. Don't.</P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="http://www.netbsd.org" TARGET="_top" >NetBSD</A > does of course work on PReP PowerPCs. It probably also works on your Remington typewriter from the early 50s. 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