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Red Hat and Novell offer Linux on POWER distributions for System i family of servers. The same distributions that run on the IBM i platform run on the System p platform.
1 models 515, 520, 525, 550, 570, and 595
2 models 270, 800, 810, 820, 825, 830, 840, 870, and 890
3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not support System i models with POWER5+ processors
4 SLES 10 is not supported on models 270, 820, 830 and 840
These Red Hat and SUSE LINUX distributions can be ordered from IBM with an System i server order or model upgrade or directly from Red Hat or Novell.
Linux on System i and System p platforms
With the announcement of POWER5-based systems in 2004 and the availability of Linux on POWER distributions for Red Hat and Novell, customers, business partners and independent software vendors can deploy applications running on Linux on either System i or System p platforms.
Since System i and System p offerings are built with the same POWER5 and POWER5+ processors and server technology, Linux applications that run on System p can run on Systems i offerings unchanged. While most of the I/O options are the same between the System i and System p offerings, support is dependent upon specific I/O availability as required by the application.
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