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Chock Full o' NetBSD!

Posted by timothy on from the there-are-other-islands-y'know dept.

jschauma writes "While it's no Indigo Espresso or a VAX Bar (though, of course, there is NetBSD/sgimips and NetBSD/vax), at least you can log in on a Mr. Coffee. And while the JavaStation has been running NetBSD for a while, full support is now completely in-tree: NetBSD's Martin Husemann announced today that he has fixed all outstanding issues with JavaStation support. This means, that you can now run your JavaStation with a stock distribution of NetBSD/sparc. The JavaStation-NC is a network computer class machine built on the microSPARC-IIep processor. More information about the JavaStation can be found in the JavaStation HOWTO, Martin's email to the port-sparc mailing list and Valeriy E. Ushakov's paper 'Porting NetBSD to JavaStation-NC.'"

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  1. but why? by penguin7of9 · · Score: -1, Insightful

    There can't be a lot of those machine around. And a new Mini ITX machine can be ahd for under $200, is more powerful, more featureful, and has far more software available for it.