Project sonoko, x11 xterm home-made

several reasons; we also use a similar board for a NAS, but basically, we like this board for the PCI bus, and for the JTAG we happen to have a BDI1000 JTAG ICE with a valid license for professional debugging software for the PPC/405, so it's really nice for us dunno. For us it's useful, and it's a need since we really need three LCDs connected to two nodes through a KVM in both dual screens and Xinerama setup (it depends on the context). These two PowerPC nodes are also connected to a Routerboard (bought yesterday), thus the whole system is able to bootstrap, well balanced on its load, able to load its services and it's also independent of everything else on the lan. PowerPC boards are not able to bootstrap from a harddrive/pendrive (the kernel's driver for the pATA chip is bugged and doesn't work, the firmware is ... theoretically able to load a raw file from a pATA device), they need to bootstrap from the lan, and the Routerboard is able to provide a good tftpbootp server plus other services to accomplish the task. We are also developing a RFID card to unlock/lock the machine (still experimental, and we are going to use an old 68HC11 board for this ... it's 80s technology) It's really a funny project made recycling old parts, and an old Apple PowerMac chassis. We also really like manually making parts, without a 3D printer. If you look at parts for the PSU, they were manually made by engraving the plastic! This is part of the fun :D anyway, I believe the system can be replicated with modern technology, say ... two or three RPIs in a modern case made by a 3D printer. well, we have a job in avionics, where PPC boards are used. We bought years ago a couple of boards from Newark and they were 1900 euro each, plus fees and S/H (FeDex). Two years ago, I sold the last "codename eBony" (PowerPC460) couple of boards to a company in China for a super discount (500 euro both/second hand, instead of 1600 each/brand new). The DHT-boards that we are using are derived from a similar expensive board. There was a company in 2001 who made them, but ... it's difficult to find one nowadays. We had 2 little DTH boards in stock, and we decided to use for a personal project since they are definitively EOL once and forever and we don't want to support them in 2019. Again, the RPI is the super cheap choice since it's easy to be found (e.g. you can buy from RS, Mouser, et al), and it only costs around 30 euro. RPI is USB driven, not a problem, modern keyboards and mouses are USB, our is PS/2 but there are USB-to-PS/2 adapter for 5-10 Euro; The RPI is not VGA, it's HDMI, but yet again it's not a problem, there are VGA adapters (HDMI to VGA) for the RPI and VGA modules for the expansion port. This can be evaluated. For a classic design (the 90s and 2000s design), we want to use VGA LCDs, VGA KVM, and PCI_VGA video adapters. yup, we are alone. I have already posted on the Linux mail-list, still no answer. Not a problem, it simply requires more time.