[SOC] Linux only computers??

[Rob Matherly]

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----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>
To: SOC List <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Linux only computers??


On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:48:40PM -0500, Rob Matherly wrote:
> I went to the local club meeting today and when I walked through the door
I
> was told "Good thing you showed up, I've been telling everyone that if
you
> show up I'd give you a computer and if you didn't I wouldn't."  He went
on
> to say that it only runs Linux and nothing else.  He told me that the guy
> he got it off of said that it was configured to run Linux and wouldn't
run
> anything else.
>
> Question 1:  I didn't know that you could configure a PC to only run
Linux
> and nothing else
> Question 2:  Not that I would or am thinking of doing it, but what would
> you do to it to make it run Windows?
>
> I told the guy it that was great because I was wanting a Linux box but
> couldn't get the one I was building around a 486 to boot.
>
> He also said that the keyboard is hardwired to the monitor???  What do I
do
> if the keyboard quits on me??? :^)

That sounds like one of the "net appliances" which has been
reconfigured to run Linux.  I recall there was one a few years ago
(I-opener or something like that??) which could be dug into and a hard
drive added.  They were practically giving them away because they could
only be used with their ISP service.  There was a web site which went
through the steps to install a hard drive and put Linux on it.
Eventually the company wised up and made you sign a contract for
service in order to buy the hardware.  Circuit City carried them but
was always running out (I tried to get one, but was unsuccessful).
It's been a while, but I think the reason it was Linux-specific was
that it didn't have an Intel-compatible CPU, but something else.  Linux
runs on many types of platforms.

Or it could have been some other computer on a non-Intel platform.
There was a company in Canada which made a neat little box with a ARM
RISC processor that ran Linux.

Bob, N7XY

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