From: tronnerd82@aol.com   
      
   On 2025-04-01, King Beowulf  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:38:37 -0000 (UTC), TronNerd82 wrote:   
   >   
   >> Recently I was looking into the idea of Slackware on RISC-V and came   
   >> across BonSlack, a third-party port of Slackware to a number of   
   >> different hardware architectures, including RISC-V, PowerPC, ARMv5,   
   >> SPARC, MIPS, and even PA-RISC !!!   
   >>   
   >> https://bonslack.org   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Too bad my Powermac G5 dies years and years ago~   
      
   R.I.P. your PowerMac. Such good machines. Back when Apple actually knew   
   how to make a decent computer. Hope you can find another one for a good   
   price :)   
      
   >> https://epic-slack.org   
   >>   
   >> It would appear from looking at the distribution tree for EPIC Slack,   
   >> that all graphical applications are removed (presumably due to the   
   >> immense work needed to get such programs to run).   
   >>   
   >>   
   > If I still had any old hardware this would be spiffy.  I wonder if I can   
   > still find some old Itanium server hardware.  I can then run my gopher   
   > server on it!   
   >   
   > -kb   
      
   I recently looked online (eBay) for some old Itanium hardware, with no   
   intent to buy anything. The prices ranged from $200 for decomissioned   
   Intregrity servers listed as "for parts" up to $2000 for known working   
   HP ZX{2,6}000 workstations. Might be a worthwhile endeavor to pick up   
   one of those "for parts" machines and see if there's anything that   
   needs to be done or if they're just too lazy to turn it on.   
      
   --   
   I didn't choose the Slackware life.   
   Oh wait, that's a big fat lie.   
   But the Slackware life also chose me :)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)