This article describes Performance Inspector, which contains a suite of performance tools for Linux. The author describes how to download and install the required software and tools, and how to collect performance data. She also provides details on how to use the five basic tools, which you can use to analyze performance of your C/C++ and Java apps, as well as performance of your system as a whole.
Five Performance Tools for Linux on PowerPC
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Eugenia Loli
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This is a bit off topic – but as I had I quick look over the aricle I noticed the screen shot for the tools download. It shows MSIE being used as the browser. IBM what were you thinking ?
Firstly you cant even run IE on PPC under Linux (only on IA386 using Wine/Xover). I can even understand why when they mostly show Eclipse screenshots on Windows in developerWorks articles, as the Win version runs faster than Eclipse-GTK2. But using and promoting IE at a time when it has shown to be fundamentally insecure and dangerous. I would have thought that Mozilla would be the default browser at IBM even on Windows desktops.
Nice to see IBM pushing Linux on PPC at last anyway. BTW I don’t think SCO will like it as one of the authors is an IBM AIX technical consultant – maybe they will they will want a deposition from him in discovery ;-(
Why do you bother which program others use for browsing ? 😉
Because IE is dangerous to the health of their computers. At work we had one Win machine so corrupted with adware that it was unusable so we had to wipe the OS and reinstall it.
IS it possible to get a PPC-based PC without paying extortionate Apple hardware prices?? I’ve never seen any other PPC-based home systems, or even the chips themselves available as separates.
Cheers
–Robin
While this isn’t a no apple solution, it’s cheap. I got a used iBook (4 years old, 12″, 500mhz G3, dual USB, tiny little white thing) upgraded the RAM and put a new battery in it for under $500. Yellowdog runs beautifully. I occasionally boot back into OSX for unfarmiliar wifi situations, but for the most part it stays booted into Yellowdog since OSX is painfully slow. The final product – a tiny little linux box with built in wifi that lasts four and a half hours on battery.
The article has three authors: Katie Mata, Joseph Pu and Jimmy DeWitt. Referencing the three of them as she doesn’t seem neither politically correct nor fair.
It’s nice to see an increasing array of tools for this great platform
Don’t forget the biggest, baddest PowerPC based machine of all…the Regatta. IBM makes this as well as a host of Power PC’s from big iron like Regatta to workstation class machines. Linux is supportted on all of them, but your NOT going to run Linux on a Regatta. PowerPC is a STRONG platform. In some respects, stronger then Intel. You got all kind of PowerPC based machines running all kind of OS’s on it. It’s in machines from game consoles to big iron UNIX machines. PowerPC can be called the Linux of processors in some respects.
I will tell you why I do not run Linux on my Mac and shoose to use OS X. I can go to Compusa and the Apple store and buy software that is simply not going to appear in open source. Route 66 mapping software with GPS support is available. iMovie and iDVD also are great apps along with iTunes and GarageBand. I can run REAL MS Office apps and have no fear of iffy office document support. As good as Abiword and Gnumeric are, I need REAL office.
One other feature thats hardly mentioned much anymore is the fact that ANY application that prints can print to a pdf file thanks to Quartz Extreme. I don’t need acrobat for anything except more advanced PDFs.
I hope to see more of Linux on the PPC articles on OSnews.