[TriLUG] why run open source OS on oddball old hardware? (LONGDIATRIBE)

[William W. Ward]

No jokes about my client here, I'm at work, and when in Rome...

Would an Apple PowerMac 7100 qualify as "different" enough for a non-x86
install (non)event?  I've been blessed with this somewhat heavy, but not
terribly large computer, but light on RAM at 32MB.  I've thrown in an extra
2GB disk (1GB included with the unit,) and would love to see it run
something other than MacOS 9.  Not that I have anything against MacOS 9 in
particular, but I don't use it very much since I have two very capable
Wintel boxes I use for most of that sort of window stuff anyway.

Otherwise, what are the most physically large computers that some variant of
Linux has been adapted to that you've bought on E-bay, scrounged from
salvage or been gifted as part of a corporate cleanout?  Any of them with
the requisite blinky lights in quantity?

I'd love to hear about the most esoteric hardware you can get, as most of
the computers I've had the privilege of dealing with aren't all that
dramatic.

Also - anyone succeeded in getting a Compaq iPaq equipped with Linux?  Any
way to do it using a bootstrap instead of flashing out the firmware?

-b-

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Johnson" <mike at enoch.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] why run open source OS on oddball old hardware?
(LONGDIATRIBE)