Motorola's garage sale

der.hans plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:04:01 -0700 (MST)


Am 02. Mar, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bryce C so:

> I'll take 3, 24ft satellite dishes and an Iridium division.
> Does anyone know if an Iridium satellite can run linux?  Now that would
> be cool.

> I.e. Hey baby. I've got my own Iridium satellite that runs Gentoo linux

It'll take a year to compile your dist before you can start using it. Those
things do not have AMD 3k CPUs.

They were for sale. $30 billion, I think. There was a petition for them to
be donated for scientific use or something like that.

ciao,

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