Apache Binaries Available for PS2 Linux

cant_get_a_good_nick writes: "From ApacheWeek, probably the best net resource for Apache, comes the announcement of a binary build of Apache 2.0.39 for PS2 Linux. You too can have a server farm for web serving, and GTA3. Be nice and don't kill this guy's downloads page."

Woah

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I can set up a webserver on my PS2 and visit it with my Dreamcast! Once they get the Xbox running linux, we'll be all set.

Re:Can you even imagine...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes I can imagine. It's called a "server farm".

$W33t

[dotgod]

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Like that will ever happen

[Rob.Mathers]

"Be nice and don't kill this guys downloads page."
That's like standing in front of the running of the bulls and asking for them to spare you -- it's just not going to happen! :P

Re:Webserver

[PacoTaco]

Dude, this is Slashdot. If I got my ass to run Linux, they'd post that too. :)

Being the one who sometimes submits kernel updates

[The Pi-Guy]

now I see it from the flamers' perspective... WOO-HOO. Oh looky looky, someone said the word "Linux". Let's post it on Slashdot! Whoah, someone actually downloaded a file, ran configure, and built a binary? Like everyone else in the world does? WOW! ... Ok. I'm not trying to be flamebait here, but ... it's that easy. ./configure --prefix=~/package/usr make make install tar czvf apache.tgz ~/package/* ... and presto-chango. You have a file called apache.tgz, which you unzip in / and you have apache. /me ducks from the mods, and hopes for well-done M2...

--pi

comon...

[Anonymous Coward]

example from /.

"A guy is running apache on a timex watch!! heres the link to his site"

5 hits later, the site goes down.

angry /.'er everwhere:

a) "its /.'ed"
b) "heres the google cache, gimme karma now!"

comon ppl...

I was considering getting a kit

[nixchick]

I thought about getting one of these kits for our PS2. But then I realised that while I'm messing around on the PC my boyfriend can play games which keeps him quiet. If I started hogging the playstation he wouldn't have anything to do ;)

Maybe we should just buy another PS2 now that they've come down in price so much....no there's an idea!

All well and good

[nakaduct]

Does the distribution include mod_chip?

Awesome!

[Wakko Warner]

This is just what I bought my PS2 for!!!!!

Oh wait.

No.

It was to play "Gran Turismo".

- A.P.

GTA3 and webserving?

[NanoGator]

"You too can have a server farm for web serving, and GTA3."

Well you don't really need a PS2 running Linux to do that. Just use a Windows 2000 box running Apache, then you can serve web pages while playing GTA 3.

You can't do that on a PS2!!!

Ever so critical

[tlh1005]

Of course this has uses on some levels. Will a bank of PS2's ever be the backbone of EBAY, NO. But it can be a useful hobby/ learning tool for someone who happens to already own a PS2 and not a computer.

I can't figure out what "makes" a story here, I've seen readers praise less interesting re-invented wheels than this one. I could cure cancer and you guys would say "so", but let some guy setup Linux to auto-flush his toilet and he'd be a hero.

Re:Webserver

[Afrosheen]

Yeah the linux ps2 kit comes with a keyboard, mouse, vga-adapter cable, hard drive, toothpaste and sony branded comb. That way you can look as good as you feel.

i look forward to sony's reaction when....

[Miska]

they discover the first ps2 mp3/divX site

.

Imagine a ...

[valmont]

... whole clumsily-arranged, ill-balanced, awkwardly-vertical, babel-tower-defying, sky-scraping beowulf cluster of those!