Adam Schaible on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:12:05 -0400 |
One more item to add to this thread in case no one mentioned it... Slashdot covered Linux on the AS/400 a couple weeks ago in this thread: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/29/1429254 -Adam Schaible Conshohocken, PA --- "W. Chris Shank" <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com> wrote: > Great input, thanks everyone. I think I'll tool > around with the native OS for > a while. depending on how much info I can scrounge > on how it works, until I > get bored. then I'll see if I can yank any > components. If not, I'll likely > want to get rid of it - especially since my wife > won't be too keen on giving > up her parking spot in the garage for very long;^) > > As for the OS, I think it will still have the > current OS on it. The company > that is giving it to me got a new one, with the most > current OS. So I should > be able to get it to boot, at least. > > Please keep the info coming. > > -chris > > On Thursday 11 April 2002 09:52 pm, you wrote: > > This is off topic - someone just gave me an AS/400 > eServer (about 4 years > > old and apparently obsolete). Besides trying to > figure out where I'll put > > it (it's huge) I need to figure out how to use it > and/or what it might be > > useful for. At the very least, the components seem > to be SCSI (3 disks > > (raid?), tape, cdrom) so I might be able to strip > them out of the unit for > > use elsewhere. But before I do that, does anyone > know what the whole unit > > might be good for? I hear that IBM has linux > running on the AS/400 in > > virtual partitions. Anything besides that? > > > > thx > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - > http://www.phillylinux.org > > > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - > http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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