Like Lisa2.com, it might make a great tribute to older technology having a 386 up and running, but it serves no practical purpose for me. I could care less if I get it or not.
Those of us with old boxes might consider setting up a compile farm for distcc to use. That's what I'm doing with my various old boxes (two Power Mac 8500's, a PowerCenter Pro, the 386, a box of Socket 3 and Socket 7 motherboards, an overclocked Pentium II, and the spare clock cycles of a Pentium 4 home server). Xcode lets me use distcc for compilations, and so does Gentoo.
Though, replace "20 MHz 386" with "Power Mac G4 or G5" and I might just post my address...:-)
I think Linux is still cool. Then again, I've only been toying with Gentoo since the days of 2.6.10.:-) There is probably a version of 1.2 out there somewhere for you, but you wouldn't get all the cool stuff like support for USB, FireWire, SATA, IPv6... stuff you'll be needing today and tomorrow.
I might just inherit an old 20 MHz 386 if I can convince my grandparents to go Mac mini, and I'll have Gentoo on that box before you know it... might make it a Web server for the hell of it, I hate to waste a working computer.
I hope Mac OS X is the future, but Linux will still be around for the hobbyists, the Aqua-haters and those too cheap for OS X or an unlimited-client version of OS X Server. We shouldn't fight over *nix-based OSes yet, we've still got to crush Windows Vista.:-)
Lisa2.com -- the world's only Lisa II web server (so the owner advertises). The Lisa II is offline for its twentieth birthday, but the site is mirrored elsewhere. So don't feel bad about serving off of old computers, guy who serves web pages off a 486!
His pimped-out Lisa II includes an 18 MHz 68000 processor, 10 MB of RAM and a 500 MB SCSI hard drive with Mac OS 7.5.5 installed. The practical applications for this two-decade-old computer include serving up web pages (with MacHTTP) and as old as it is, can use CD-ROM drives and even capture video! In fact, he's working on setting up a webcam on the Lisa!
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Like Lisa2.com, it might make a great tribute to older technology having a 386 up and running, but it serves no practical purpose for me. I could care less if I get it or not.
:-)
Those of us with old boxes might consider setting up a compile farm for distcc to use. That's what I'm doing with my various old boxes (two Power Mac 8500's, a PowerCenter Pro, the 386, a box of Socket 3 and Socket 7 motherboards, an overclocked Pentium II, and the spare clock cycles of a Pentium 4 home server). Xcode lets me use distcc for compilations, and so does Gentoo.
Though, replace "20 MHz 386" with "Power Mac G4 or G5" and I might just post my address...
I think Linux is still cool. Then again, I've only been toying with Gentoo since the days of 2.6.10. :-) There is probably a version of 1.2 out there somewhere for you, but you wouldn't get all the cool stuff like support for USB, FireWire, SATA, IPv6... stuff you'll be needing today and tomorrow.
:-)
I might just inherit an old 20 MHz 386 if I can convince my grandparents to go Mac mini, and I'll have Gentoo on that box before you know it... might make it a Web server for the hell of it, I hate to waste a working computer.
I hope Mac OS X is the future, but Linux will still be around for the hobbyists, the Aqua-haters and those too cheap for OS X or an unlimited-client version of OS X Server. We shouldn't fight over *nix-based OSes yet, we've still got to crush Windows Vista.
Sorry for going OT, but what would happen if it did? And more importantly, is the plural "neutrinos" or "neutrinoes?"
Lisa2.com -- the world's only Lisa II web server (so the owner advertises). The Lisa II is offline for its twentieth birthday, but the site is mirrored elsewhere. So don't feel bad about serving off of old computers, guy who serves web pages off a 486!
His pimped-out Lisa II includes an 18 MHz 68000 processor, 10 MB of RAM and a 500 MB SCSI hard drive with Mac OS 7.5.5 installed. The practical applications for this two-decade-old computer include serving up web pages (with MacHTTP) and as old as it is, can use CD-ROM drives and even capture video! In fact, he's working on setting up a webcam on the Lisa!