Power Linux

According to CNET, Linus Torvalds has switched platform. Specifically, his main desktop machine is no longer an x86 platform, but the Power platform, designed by IBM, and used by Apple Computers in its PowerPC G-series computers.

Linus writes:

Part of it is simply that I wanted to try something else, and I felt like there were enough people testing the x86 side that it certainly didn't need me. Part of it is that I personally believe there are two main architectures out there: Power and x86-64 are what _I_ think are the two most relevant ones, and I decided that I had to at least check the other side of it out seriously if I really believed that

But CNET reports that Linus may have simply been acting like a typical geek:

"Oh, and part of it is that I got the machine for free," said Torvalds. "I'm really a technology whore."

So, what would you do with a G5 if you got it for free?

[Cross-posted at Between Worlds]