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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
> >
> >
> >
>
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