30 Fructidor CCXI (September 16, 2003)
I Must Be Crazy
"Just say NO to drugs, and perhaps you won't end up like the Hurd people." – Linus Torvalds.
I think the title says it all, I must be crazy. What else would give me the sudden urge to take one of the old 586s (586es?) I have lying around and attempt to install what has got to be the most infamous of all free software projects on it.
Not a clue what I'm going to do with the thing. Hell, not even a clue of what I can do with the thing. But I've got the hardware, I've got the CDs, and my landlord still hasn't complained about my power usage*, so I'm going to try it anyways.
If anyone happens to stop by and finds me curled up in a fœtal position mumbling nonsense, they'll know why.
* Then again, the previous tenant had a stereo system that idled at roughly the same wattage as all my computers combined. So I'm probably using next to nothing compared to him.
Good luck and godspeed.
Although godspeed might be difficult on a 586.
It can't be worse than installing Slackware on a 16MHz 386SX. Some days I'm just overly masochistic it seems.
Ok, so really the only reason I'm doing this is to:
a) add to the list of operating systems I've installed at some point or another
and
b) force the admins at the uptimes project to add a Hurd icon after I port my perl client to it. (Why yes, I am a bastard. Thank you for noticing.)
Posted by g026r at 30 Fructidor CCXI 17:35 (2003/09/16)
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