eServer Developer Domain: Application Development on Linux Power

“Deploying and developing your application on Linux for the IBM
pSeries and iSeries POWER platforms is similar to deploying and
developing on other Linux systems. In this article the similarities
and differences that you need to be aware of for the Linux POWER
systems are discussed.

“Both pSeries and iSeries servers are based on the same POWER
processor architecture, binaries compiled under a Linux
distribution on either pSeries or iSeries run on both platforms.
However, changes may be required for differences in I/O support
between pSeries and iSeries servers.

“Information in this article is based on the SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 and Red Hat Linux 7.1, kernel versions
2.4 for POWER architecture. SuSE Linux distributes and supports
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 for pSeries and iSeries
hardware…”

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