fun with trash

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 2:15 pm

Nice - I like all the pictures guys.

Unread post by **simgin** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:28 pm

Wow, nice stuff guys, getting very jealous. Damn you are hardcore :)

Cheers
simon

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:44 pm

The grill is like a bazaar. Fuck that shitty new glitzy stuff.

Unread post by **pidsley** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:32 pm

Here is my other optiplex, a 755 dual-core pentium. I had to pay $15 for it because apparently pentium machines are popular on ebay.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it; maybe a BSD test machine, maybe something else.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 5:38 pm

Yes, BSD/Minix/haiku for this baby :)

Unread post by **ChefIronBelly** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 8:40 pm

oh I have some trash to share I just need to muster up some motivation... tank is on empty.

Unread post by **simgin** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:07 am

^^ Haiku FTW, will try Minix soon though (can use NetBSD stuff now)
I think Haiku has been the snappiest OS to run for me, not counting KolibriOS ofc.

Cheers for the mention. Will try Haiku again, to see how much it has evolved.

Simon

Unread post by **kondor** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:01 am

Yes. This thread is relevant to my interests.

Here we have a gorgeous chrome plated turd from Cupertino. Right now it's got Mint PPC on it and it can't even use the proprietary CD/DVD writer. Fun fact: it also runs slower than dirt. So slow, in fact, that I doubt there's much future in running linux on it at all. But I figure it's a project worth throwing out to the grill for the wisecracks and/or feedback.

Unread post by **darry1966** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:13 am

why not try Bork on it or Antix.:)

Unread post by **kondor** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:16 am

There's a Bork PPC edition? Hell, has anybody ever done a PowerPC BBQ spin?

Nice try, darry. :)

Unread post by **darry1966** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:28 am

Oops my bad didn't realise it was PowerPC - sorry:(

Unread post by **kondor** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:33 am

No sweat, darry. It's all good fun around the grill. :)

It was a serious pain to get MintPPC on it in the first place. "Open Firmware" my ass. I've got half a mind to disembowel the fucker and just drop a NUC in there, but the goddam display connector is proprietary, too!

It's shit like this, Steve.

Anyway, here's a link to what one crazy bastard went through just to make one of the damn things actually usable:
http://www.dremeljunkie.com/

Unread post by **darry1966** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:52 am

Yeah had a browse for possibles and only came up with Debian.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2 ... pc/iso-cd/

Not sure about Yellowdog it is Redhat/Centos so is probably heavy.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:44 am

I'd go back to Macos 9.2.2 :)
wow that guy goes all out to make it modern, then just puts OSX on it :)

I did chop a mac up once - idea was to look like the popular Terminator, cut all the plastic off and make it smaller, then put perspex over it. didn't really work after I'd 'modded' it and it was shit to begin with (4400) so that really did end up as trash.

Not modded, but running one of these at home as a print/file server for some reason, bit trashy, stays on though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini# ... d_Mac_Mini running Xubuntu

Unread post by **franksinistra** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:21 am

^^^ There's always netbsd if you want full ppc support https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 6:14 pm

kondor wrote:Hell, has anybody ever done a PowerPC BBQ spin?

Not that I know of :D

Unread post by **Theo** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:46 pm

I've got a Packard Hell 600mhz PIII with almost 200mb ram. After X-mas I'll give it shot with Bork. I guess it should be working, but the biggest question is how :)

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 2:25 pm

^ how do you mean? - look at Plop boot loader?

Unread post by **Theo** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 3:00 pm

^No not that way :) The brand Packard ... is evil :P So I expect any kind of troubles :P

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 7:27 pm

^ Oh right.
As may be recorded in this forum - I had an HP e-vectra, that was plenty of fun....NOT

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