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Linux on Power Systems including System p and System i

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Power Systems Facts and Features - The Facts and Features and I/O Features reports give you a side-by-side comparison of the various systems available with many of their key specifications and information about supported AIX, IBM i and Linux versions.
Important notices to read before installing Linux on IBM Power Systems servers - The following link contains urgent and timely information that could help you avoid problems during the installation of Linux on IBM Power Systems servers. Please read these importance notices before you begin your Linux installation.
Power Systems performance reports - Need a quick reference on the performance of IBM Power™ Systems servers? The IBM Systems Performance reports give all the benchmark results as well as relative performance metrics of current and withdrawn IBM Power Systems including Power™ and BladeCenter® servers.
IBM Power Systems performance benchmarks - IBM Power Systems demonstrate IBM's continued commitment to organizations of all sizes. The family of IBM Power Systems includes the new Power servers as well as earlier System p™ and System i™ servers. In addition to energy efficiency and virtualization technologies, Power systems offer outstanding performance. In fact, IBM Power Systems took the lead in over 70 key computing performance benchmarks. But don't take our word for it. See the results.
Linux on Power Systems Support Forum - The Linux on Power Systems discussion forum is a community forum intended to let users help one another and answer questions about building, porting, and deploying Linux applications on IBM POWER processor-based systems.
PowerVM Lx86 developerWorks - Source for PowerVM Lx86 feature downloads or system configuration and recommendation information.
IBM PowerVM Lx86 Support Forum - The IBM PowerVM Lx86 forum addresses comments and questions relating to the installation and use of the PowerVM Lx86 feature on Power processor-based systems.

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Tools:

IBM System Planning Tool - The SPT helps you plan and configure a Power solution to run Linux in logical partitions.
IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER - The IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER provides a set of tools and utilities that help you install the Linux operating system on IBM servers with POWER architecture.
IBM Workload Estimator - The Workload Estimator provides assistance on determining the size of Linux partitions needed to support file serving, Web serving, network infrastructure, WebSphere and DB2 UDB workloads.
Solution Sizing Guides - IBM has worked with selected software vendors to produce Solution Sizing Guides for their applications. These guides help you determine the size of a Linux partition needed to support a given workload.

Support and services:

IBM Support Line for Linux - IBM provides support for the Linux operating system through a Support Line contract for Linux. With a contract you get telephone or electronic access to our highly-trained technical support specialists, who can serve as your one source for remote software support services.
Red Hat support (link resides outside of ibm.com) - Red Hat offers standard and premium support for their Linux distributions on the System i family.
Novell support (link resides outside of ibm.com) - Novell offers standard and premium support for their SUSE LINUX distributions on the System i family.
IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab Services- The CTC has experts that can assist you with your Linux development or implementation projects.

Distributions available:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for POWER (link resides outside of ibm.com)
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) for POWER (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Community

IBM Business Partners

Developers

Education

Independent software vendors - One of the fastest developing new ecosystems in the modern IT industry, the number of tested, native applications available for the Linux on POWER platform now exceeds the 2,500 mark.

Chiphopper™ - IBM eServer Application Advantage® for Linux (Chiphopper) offering enables existing x86 processor-based Linux applications to run across an extensive—and growing—client install base with a single port.