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PumpkinPC v1.0 Makes Its Hallowe'en Debut

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-a-pumpkin-in-the-morning dept.

vivIsel writes "I just recently created the PumpkinPC v1.0 for the Hack-O-Lantern contest at Bjorn3D. I thought the Slashdot community would get a kick out of this--it being Halloween, and all. I just hope it doesn't rot too soon." Hopefully, the pumpkin has survived the trick-or-treaters.

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  1. Congrats by AntiFreeze · · Score: 3, Informative

    vivIsel, congrats on the second place win. Use that geforce well =]

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  2. Saw this a year ago by ep32g79 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw this thing ago last year, except it ran linux, Jack-O-Linux

  3. 2nd Place by AbyssDragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    This hack-o-lantern only won second place, actually. You need to check out the Bjorn3d link to see the winner of the contest.

  4. more pics by DarkSkiesAhead · · Score: 5, Informative


    The Bjorn3D site has more pics of this guy's pumpkin pc. It also has pics of the first place winner, Pimpkin Mark 4.

  5. Mirror by Captain+Chad · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just in case, here is a mirror.

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  6. Sure it is by ergo98 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well I run win2k as a gaming OS but I'm pretty smart. The average gamer needs to run win98 or XP if they want to have a chance of playing the latest games. Linux is just not a feasable solution. Even things like WINE do not work with most games.

    XP is, in all essence, Windows 2000 version 2, and is largely parallel with 2000 for gaming. 2000 wasn't a good choice for gaming in the early days because the drivers just weren't there for multimedia hardware: Soundblaster, Geforce, etc-- all of them had hackneyed, poor performance and poor compatibility drivers. As Microsoft made it clear that it was the future direction they got their ass in gear and made drivers that often exceed the speed of the 95/98/ME machines. As it stands if I were given a choice between 2000 and 98, I'd take 2000 hands down.