As you'll likely have already seen/heard (or will hear soon), both R/H & SuSEL support DLPAR in their newest editions. IBM has partnered with both to support this vital function in the IBM POWER Roadmap. Virtualization is the key driver to all of the new announcements, and IBM is setting its partners on the forefront (as it seems).
I prefer SuSE, but is goes back to my Mac days (which I still own & utilize for my personal computing), wherein I had a SuSE PowerPC intall on a partition for one of my older PowerBooks (Wall Street). The GUI is nicer, IMHO, and the efficiency of the processor utilization is much higher.
I'm not using either, currently, and have resolved myself to remaining a UNIX-man.
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