“Big Blue offers free specs for Linux-friendly
motherboard.”
“IBM’s Microelectronics division is offering–for free–the
design for a PowerPC motherboard that runs Linux, as a way to seed
the market for PowerPC systems that run the open-source operating
system, an IBM engineer says.
“It’s a very Linux approach to the marketplace in that the
platform is open and freely available for use by any customer,”
says Steve Faure, an advisory engineer in the PowerPC Applications
group at IBM Microelectronics.”
“IBM will not charge license fees or royalties, nor will it
manufacture its own motherboards based on the design, Faure says.
The company will provide schematics, component lists, and circuit
board art to interested manufacturers, Faure adds.”