I remember this project! Inspired me to make an MP3 player out of an old VCR case and an old 486, to use with my appropriately 90s stereo component stack. Around the same time I had been given 6x Powermac 7200s that had been retired from a local company. I loaded up Debian, and wrote some crude bash scripts to convert WAV to MP3 on the "cluster". I believe they were G3 233mhz, and as a cluster they could rip a CD to MP3 faster than anything on the market at the time. Getting Linux running on a PowerPC CPU got me into Debian, and now 20+ years later it's still my distro of choice, albeit on AWS and Linode these days. :)Thanks for posting, living in that nostalgia for a moment has made my day.
No comments yet.