On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> On 1/10/07, Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> It is true but now days there are many small cases that look as  
>> good or
>> better. I wish I could upgrade hardware on the cube to something
>> comparable to intel 500Mhz or more. I guess that would be AMD  
>> based qube  :)
>
> Someone booted some modified NetBSD/i386 on an intel based Qube a
> while back. Would have been really nice if it became a full blown
> port, but it didn't for whatever reason. I would have looked into
> getting one if it did become a port.

I've looked at those a couple of times on ebay; I had no idea the  
regular i386 would not run on them.  BlueQuartz the only modern  
thing?  or Debian?

Since support for the MIPS is decent for the niche, I just assumed  
i386 would be a no-brainer.

Good timing, thanks.

Brian