By: Breno Leitão This technical preview tutorial explains how users of IBM's latest POWER8-based scale-out Linux servers can try Ubuntu running non-virtualized.  We show how Ubuntu can be installed directly on the OPAL firmware, and run as a single-image operating system directly on the system.        Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 14.04 is generally available today and fully supported as a PowerKVM guest on the IBM Power Systems shown below: IBM Power System S812L (8247-21L) IBM Power System S822L... [More]

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