The first server I ever owned, as in, the first hardware that was mine, and ran my self-hosted things, is sitting here, under my desk.

Sometimes I feel like resurrecting it, see if it still works, and if it does, making it part of my homelab, and host some of my stuff on it.

The problem is, I don't think anything but the BSDs support it anymore, and I'm pretty sure a lot of modern languages don't target this particular architecture either (ppc32).

Heh, looks like Rust at least has some kind of ppc32 support as of... a few weeks ago. I would not have expected that.

Go seems to have closed the request as not planned.

@algernon is it a PowerPC mac? Linux still supports ppc32

@noisytoot Yep, single CPU Power Mac G4. The kernel may support it, but none of the Linux distros I'm willing to use (Debian, NixOS, perhaps alpine) do.

I should at least check if it still has a hard disk inside. It might. Would be interesting to see if there's anything on it that I didn't save elsewhere, if I can resurrect anything lost.

@algernon Why those specific distros? Adélie Linux supports it. It's not Alpine but it uses the same package manager.

@noisytoot Those are the ones I'm familiar with.