This might not be what you were refering to but Amino Communications
(http://www.aminocom.com) has some very small mini set-top boxes that use a
PowerPC that can run Linux. Being set-top boxes they have the typical video-out
& audio-out ports but they also have an Ethernet port. From what I've hear
On Friday 21 March 2003 05:41 pm, David Douthitt wrote:
> > One of my friends has added Linux
> > to the Mac boot-menu that was considered impossible (until he did it).
>
> I don't know which boot menu you mean, but for several years there's
> been a couple of INITs that would do this. They depend
David Douthitt wrote:
Now with OpenBoot firmware, you don't need all that - you don't need
MacOS at all.
Open firmware rocks! And it's forth!
I've been using forth for the AVR microcontroller code required in a
humidity/temperature logger/alarm I'm designing under contract. The PC
application
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Lynn Avants wrote:
On Thursday 20 March 2003 08:15 pm, David Douthitt wrote:
I, too have been interested in a PowerPC port - mainly because the
most
popular alternative to the Intel PC platform is Apple Macintosh.
Unfortunately, until the introduction of
On Thursday 20 March 2003 08:15 pm, David Douthitt wrote:
> I, too have been interested in a PowerPC port - mainly because the most
> popular alternative to the Intel PC platform is Apple Macintosh.
> Unfortunately, until the introduction of "New ROMs" using OpenBoot, the
> Macs wouldn't have all o
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
Brian Credeur wrote:
Hi,
Just curious: Are there any (existing or planned) ports of LEAF to
non-x86 platforms?
I've been interested in doing a PowerPC port of LEAF since I got my
first LRP baesd firewall running. This may act
Brian Credeur wrote:
I have heard an unconfirmed rumor that the Linksys border routers are
Linux/MIPS systems and this gives me two ideas:
1. Could LEAF be flashed onto a Linksys BER?
2. Could a LEAF/MIPS appliance be built for ~$100?
I've looked at OpenBrick for an x86 appliance platform, but it
I have heard an unconfirmed rumor that the Linksys border routers are
Linux/MIPS systems and this gives me two ideas:
1. Could LEAF be flashed onto a Linksys BER?
2. Could a LEAF/MIPS appliance be built for ~$100?
I've looked at OpenBrick for an x86 appliance platform, but it is still
expensive
Brian Credeur wrote:
Hi,
Just curious: Are there any (existing or planned) ports of LEAF to
non-x86 platforms?
I've been interested in doing a PowerPC port of LEAF since I got my
first LRP baesd firewall running. This may actually happen in the near
future, as a friend and I are discussing pl
Hi,
Just curious: Are there any (existing or planned) ports of LEAF to
non-x86 platforms?
Thanks,
Brian
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On 2/7/02 at 9:07 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> You might also want to check out the gentoo linux portage
> system: http://www.gentoo.org
I've heard of them a while back; the creator was inspired to create
his own distribution partly because of the BSD ports tree.
I just
On 2/7/02 at 9:35 AM, guitarlynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(I had written:)
> > > After the make install is done, the LEAF system now has
> > > /tmp/wget.lrp and an installed wget binary.
Lynn wrote:
> Then you have come up with how Debian now installs . a
> set of one or more boot floppi
On 2/7/02 at 10:07 AM, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've always been attracted by this, even to the point of
> installed an OpenBSD 2.9 system to futz with.
I bought OpenBSD 2.6 - and just invested in OpenBSD 3.0 :) Nice thing
to install on a Quadra 800 :) Just installed OpenBSD 3.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I absolutely agree, but I think you're missing the point regarding how I'd
> like to use the Gentoo portage system (or something similar).
>
> I am mainly looking for a way to co-opt a configuration/compiling
> environment to make it easy for dev
> So the choices I'm looking at for my next Linux install (now that my
> Mandrake 8 boxen are getting out of date) are:
>
> LFS: appealing idea, but doesn't fix upgrading issues.
> Gentoo: leading the pack because they've brought ports to Linux.
> Sorcerer: very nifty, but showing a lot of rough e
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, David Douthitt wrote:
> I've been working on setting up ports a little bit. I've finally
> gotten to installing OpenBSD (this time on intel instead of mac68k)
> and it uses ports like the other BSDs.
>
> Ports are really nice - basically you can download the entire ports
> tr
On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:55, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> My intent was to suggest we co-opt the portage system to enable an
> easily installed, standard development environment. We would also be
> able to benifit from the work of others maintaining the portage tree
> (updating packages
> I haven't played with Gentoo, but this sounds very similar to 'ALFS'
> which is an automated LFS. It compiles on the client box, but we
> could work around that via CGI/MySQL and everything is done via
> chroot. Source is available too.
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that SF is going to _kill_ us
comments inline ;}
In reply to DD & CS (& others...):
> > After the make install is done, the LEAF system now has
> > /tmp/wget.lrp and an installed wget binary.
Then you have come up with how Debian now installs . a set
of one or more boot floppies, then 'wget' everything else. The
unsta
> I've been working on setting up ports a little bit. I've finally
> gotten to installing OpenBSD (this time on intel instead of mac68k)
> and it uses ports like the other BSDs.
>
> Ports are really nice - basically you can download the entire ports
> tree, or just one. Then, you change director
At 2002-02-06 22:19 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
>Considering what this could mean for LEAF, consider this: a
>NFS-enabled LEAF system, with / from a full system mounted somewhere.
>Changing directories to /usr/src/ports/net/wget, do a make (pulls the
>file in, patches, builds, compiles) - and a m
I've been working on setting up ports a little bit. I've finally
gotten to installing OpenBSD (this time on intel instead of mac68k)
and it uses ports like the other BSDs.
Ports are really nice - basically you can download the entire ports
tree, or just one. Then, you change directory into
/usr
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