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>  I have a gross of 486DX machines I need to sell.  How viable do you
> think it would be to put Linux on them and try to sell them in bulk,
> if I set up the OS on all of the machines and made it as
> ready-to-start as possible?  Do you think there is any demand for
> [relatively] low-cost linux machines already set up?  I know new
> machines are sold with linux on them these days, but what about used
> machines?  They'd be all ready to go, with monitors, hard drives,
> keyboards, mice, printers, etc.  And it'd be important to sell them
> in bulk, otherwise shipping them would make it incredibly
> inefficient and costly.

>  I have a gross of 486DX machines I need to sell.  How viable do you think it
>  would be to put Linux on them and try to sell them in bulk, if I set up the
> OS  on all of the machines and made it as ready-to-start as possible?  Do you

> Hi Scott,

> >  I have a gross of 486DX machines I need to sell.  How viable do you think it
> >  would be to put Linux on them and try to sell them in bulk, if I set up the
> > OS  on all of the machines and made it as ready-to-start as possible?  Do you

> If you set them up ready to use, I think there will
> be lots of interest!
> Should be worth a try, set it up on one machine and
> just copy the setup to the others, shouldn't be too
> much work I think (if the hardware is the same)

> Worth a try i think

> CU
> Olaf

> > Hi Scott,

> > >  I have a gross of 486DX machines I need to sell.  How viable do you think it
> > >  would be to put Linux on them and try to sell them in bulk, if I set up the
> > > OS  on all of the machines and made it as ready-to-start as possible?  Do you

> > If you set them up ready to use, I think there will
> > be lots of interest!
> > Should be worth a try, set it up on one machine and
> > just copy the setup to the others, shouldn't be too
> > much work I think (if the hardware is the same)

> > Worth a try i think

> > CU
> > Olaf

> Why not wire all of them together on an ethernet
> and build yourself a Beowulf-class cluster computer.
> You ought to be able to blow the doors off just about
> anything with something like that.  Check out Redhat's
> "Power Tools CD"  (about 30 bucks), and see

>    http://www.beowulf.org

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