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Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

Posted by michael on from the slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept.

Elysdir writes "An article by Lucy A. Snyder at the online speculative-fiction magazine Strange Horizons provides information on the next frontier in Linux installations. 'Let's face it: any script kiddie with a pair of pliers can put Red Hat on a Compaq, his mom's toaster, or even the family dog. But nothing earns you geek points like installing Linux on a dead badger.' (Disclosure, in case it matters: I'm an editor for the magazine.)"

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  1. everything2! by apetime · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Very cool to find a writeup from everything2 in actual publication. The article first appeared here in January.

    The writeup has 10 C!s. Very nice.

  2. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by TechniMyoko · · Score: 1, Interesting

    thats what I say to any story about installing linux on anything

  3. Linux more widely ported than NetBSD by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Linux is now more widely ported than NetBSD (the previous "ridiculously ported" OS).

    Note that NetBSD *maintains* more ports in their distro than any single Linux distro maintainer (a lot of Linux ports are maintained just for a particular platform), so if you want a single distro that will build and run on the most CPUs, NetBSD is still ahead, but if you count specialized ports like ucLinux (for embedded systems) and all the crazy Linux ports out there, Linux has been ported to an absolutely insane number of devices.

    If you can buy it or build it and it uses electrons, you can probably run Linux on it.

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    May we never see th