Re:Is the hardware worth it? (Score 2)

*scratches head* I don't see anything but ports of Linux to sparc, alpha and i386 when I look on ftp.redhat.com. I've heard rumours of a port to the PPC of Linux, also, but it would seem anything but those three aren't worthy. ftp.linux.com doesn't work, ftp.linux.org has next to nothing useful (that could be easily found), ftp.debian.org has i386, alpha, sparc and m68k under "stable", with those four plus "arm" and "ppc" under unstable. I don't see anything about 390's or palm there...I wonder what could have happened to them ? If you goto ftp.netbsd.org, look in the /pub/NetBSD/arch directory, you will find snapshots available for each release. That is, a `complete' unix installation, not just a kernel you have to retrieve from some obscure website that may or may not be part of the real thing. If you want to checkout a real, portable, Unix, goto http://www.netbsd.org or download a snapshot for your platform from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/