Everything comes to an end friend, not everything needs to go on forever. Maybe it is forgotten, left behind, but that's not really important. What's important is it ended on his terms and some of us had the privilege to experience it.
There will still be people that find Calvin for the first time, and they will get the same privilege. I'm glad he did it his way and I think most of his new fans will as well.
I didn't see it got dropped, that is very unfortunate but also understandable. It's been a few years since I last messed around with it. If I recall, what was in the kernel at the time had a few issues and hadn't been touched in a very long time. It was a huge hassle to get working, there wasn't much up to date documentation.
I made back images and kept a lot of the documentation in case I needed to go back since it was tricky to find the first time.
However once you do get it working it's very satisfying to see a connection through a VHF radio appear in the native linux networking stack. Opens doors to a lot of goofy and fun ideas.
I agree it's really impressive, it brings a lot of things together into a cohesive package and experience. I'm a huge evangelist, I think it's the best desktop experience.
'If you google “plugging a PC into multiple outlets”, you get lots of warnings that if you even consider such a setup you will instantly burst into flames. So I hired a professional PC builder make sure it was safe.'