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15 Feb 2008

"Power VM Lx86" Video on YouTube

IBM has posted a YouTube video regarding its "Power VM Lx86" tool, which allows one to run Linux x86 userspace binaries on PowerPC Linux systems. (If you're viewing this on a PowerPC Linux system yourself, you'll want a very recent version of Gnash to view the video.)

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