PostgreSQL Ported to GameCube, Linux Progressing

TheFuzzy writes "Hey folks, thought you'd like to know that the guys at Cybertec.at have succeeded in porting PostgreSQL 7.4.1 to the Nintendo GameCube. Now you, too, can turn your former video console into the world's most underpowered database server. And before anyone asks... the Windows port is coming real soon now, so be patient - it says something that the GameCube was easier to convert to than Windows, don't it?" Elsewhere in GameCube homebrew development, it looks like the GameCube Linux project is moving along quite swiftly, with "a 22 MB Debian base system image" now available, and an "ARAM block device driver" also created, now allowing 40mb of space for Linux to run in.

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Re:Use this handy tool to save time here!

[AllUsernamesAreGone]

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Re:Why?

[torpor]

If you read the announcement you probably noticed that even the people who did the port aren't too serious about it, because it's just too damn slow. Right tools for the right job etc.

I've got $99 in my pocket, I'm in any one of about 15,000 different marketplaces in the world, and I need a computer I can stick in the middle of nowhere to watch my crops, keep track of temperature, and make sure I'm getting my quota of water from the local UN pump. I do not give a single damn fuck how 'slow' it is, I just want my crop to grow properly so I can feed my family.

You go fuck yourself, small, narrow-minded, box-dwelling purposeless cretin.