Last year I picked up a Sun X Terminal from Mr Tarr (ex Uni of Canty stock) with the intention of hooking it up to my linux box.
I d/l'ed a Sun X-Kernel with instructions on setting up bootp & tftp and stuff but I just couldn't get it to work. I got as far as the Sun picking up an IP address from the linux box, so I know the physical medium is working (bnc + coax, all correctly terminated AFAICT). I'd love to bring it along to the next workshop. I'll also bring a sixpack of the beer of your choice for whoever gets it up and running. Yuri
