He has (had?) a completely bananas amount of gear, take a look around his webpage for pics of the 'machine room'.
I can only assume that electricity bills are included in his rent in France or most of them were powered off most of the time!
In the off chance he's reading -- thank you Miod (and OpenBSD team), your software and OpenBSD makes my life better to this day.
a96 2 days ago [-]
Yep. For a user on many other ports, it was particularly interesting to see stories of the sgi and m88k ports etc. I hope there will be more.
a96 2 days ago [-]
> But in the early 2000s, smartphones did not exist, Handheld PC would not fit in your pockets unless you were André the Giant, and PDAs were not necessarily usable for that role, either lacking good displays, or good keyboards, or good expansion facilities allowing a GPRS modem to be used, or simply decent battery life.
I have a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 I’ve wanted to get running a modern kernel for a while. Ah, I always regretted not getting on the CL’s with this kind of support!
lormayna 5 days ago [-]
When I was a poor student, Zaurus was probably my biggest tech gadget dream.
Unfortunately it was rare and expensive and I never had the opportunity to play with it.
bzzzt 5 days ago [-]
It was a hype in the Linux community at the time. Around that time I moved from study to job and had a bit of cash to spare. Couldn't resist a good deal for a second hand SL-5500, but I think it was ahead of its time and the potential not fully realized.
It was also not really open source. You could compile your own distro, but nothing ever produced by the Zaurus community would ever offer as much functionality as the proprietary Linux desktop from Sharp on the 5500 at least.
EDIT: clarify in context of my GP post.
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/index.html
I can only assume that electricity bills are included in his rent in France or most of them were powered off most of the time!
In the off chance he's reading -- thank you Miod (and OpenBSD team), your software and OpenBSD makes my life better to this day.
Forgot about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Communicator line?
> This is the story of OpenBSD on the Sharp Zaurus systems. Because of its length, I have decided to split it in two parts.
> OpenBSD/cats: the enabler
> OpenBSD/zaurus (to be published 20260513)
...I will be visiting again in 5 days. Then, I will be searching eBay for a Zaurus...
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus.html