[frgeek-michiana] [Fwd: Sun kit delayed, Xara Extreme]

Latest word on the Sun kit is: The donors will drop off the gear this week at warehouse on Tu. or Thu. The whole donation will arrive at once so it will be a lot of big boxes. We'll have to stack it up in a restroom.
I checked to see what distros run on the UltraSparc-II processors in these boxes -- they are dual cpus. OpenSolaris 10 and Debian will install. OpenSolaris is probably better supported. But, Sun Solaris is not Linux. We might want to try Debian first. Another issue is whether the StorEdge A1000 units will work under Debian.
Finally, we have enough projects on our collective plate right now. Fiddling with the Sun gear may have to wait a bit. Another possibility is trying to sell the stuff on Ebay or to a data center to raise cash. 

Tom
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  • From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:14:03 -0500
Our donor (John) and I are having a difficult time handing off the Sun servers. John had car trouble Friday and had to cancel the drop-off. When he called to reschedule, I asked him how big the servers are physically. They are 6U rack servers which means about 12 inches tall, and he has at least four of them.
I'll contact Forest re doing a pickup with his van. I suspect the donor will be greatly relieved if we get the servers. Plus, there are external storage arrays which match the servers at the same location.
While I waited for the donor at the warehouse, I twiddled with creating the standard FREE GEEK logo using Xara Extreme (XE). XE is the vector graphics package included in Vector Linux. After a bit, I started to get the feel of the software and produced a draft logo. The upshot is I can use Xara to produce logos and simple graphics to import into OpenOffice2 to make computer labels, gaylord labels, handouts, flyers, etc. 

Tom

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