Octane runs Linux, but it's an experimental patch.
There's a Gentoo boot disk that works, and I was able to get Debian installed using that and cross-compile a kernel on my PC.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 21 May 2009, 16:46, 1 reply)

Well, it's progress..
I think OpenBSD is also getting close to working on an Octane, but there's no disk driver yet..

It's mildly interesting/irritating to try to put new packages on various OSses on the O2 (Irix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Debian/Gentoo) and see the configure script panic with a 'what the fuck am I running on?'
(syllopsium, Thu 21 May 2009, 16:52, closed)

Feck, I just looked and even NetBSD doesn't go on the Octane.
NetBSD goes on just about anything.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 21 May 2009, 16:55, closed)

this conversation is hilarious,cool and completely unintelligable to me.

(Fuckpig "That's not even a pound a midget.", Fri 22 May 2009, 18:32, closed)