[GRLUG] Your most interesting application of Linux

[Steve Romanow]

On 3/10/2010 4:09 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Steve Romanow<slestak989 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On 3/10/2010 3:53 PM, Ben DeMott wrote:
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>> Compiled for a PXA250 processor and iPAQ hardware, to control servos in an
>> rc airplane over wifi :)
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Steve Romanow<slestak989 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> Probably when I was a gentoo fan, I was installing it on anything that
>>> moved.  It was a joke in my office not to leave anything sitting to long
>>> because I would install linux on it.
>>>
>>> Old World All In One Macs, casio fiva's with transmeta procs (used an
>>> athlon xp as a "compile bot" for that), anything i could get my hands on.
>>>
>>>        
>> GLad you said compile for, not compiled on...
>>      
>
> That reminds me...now that I have libvirt and kvm working on dodo
> (need it to run 'doze so I can telecommute), I should set up a Gentoo
> guest as a distcc node when I have hardware to try Gentoo again.
>
>
>    
I didn't use it as a distcc node so much as an install mule.  The fiva's 
had no optical drive, so I installed using the athlon (adjusting the 
arch) installed the drivers for both machines, and just replaced the 
hard disk.