Here is an announcement from a LinuxDevices.com reader regarding a PowerPC based ATX form-factor motherboard that supposedly now runs three versions of Linux . . .

“Eyetech's AmigaOneSE board now runs three versions of Linux. So far it looks like SuSE (in German), Debian, as well as TurboLinux PPC (in French, photo link at the bottom) can be installed — no idea if anyone has tried installing all three yet. Most of the people doing these are Amiga developers, as the AmigaOnes aren't due to ship until AmigaOS 4 is done (expected this summer). Amiga Inc. is running a contest to win one or more of these systems.”

And here, from Eyetech's website, is a brief excerpt from their description of the AmigaOneG3-SE board . . .

“The AmigaOneG3-SE is a G3 PPC motherboard board capable of running Amiga OS4.x. The board uses an IBM 750CXe PPC cpu running at 600MHz. The IBM/Motorola PPC CPU's deliver far more througput per clock MHz than an x86 cpu, and this, coupled with the high efficiency and mature, designed-in, multitasking capabilities of the Amiga OS means the the new AmigaOneG3-SE is anticipated to deliver levels of user responsiveness far greater than that of equivalently priced Wintel or Macintosh computers . . . “

“The AmigaOneG3-SE can also run PPC Linux (including TurboLinux, SuSE Linux and Debian Linux) and Linux applications, such as the UAE Amiga emulator and office applications. The AmigaOneG3-SE uses a standard ATX form factor (and can therefore use any case capable of taking a full-sized ATX motherboard), supports up to 2GB of main memory and has 4 x PCI + 1 x AGP (2x) slots on board.”

 
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