[ncolug] Re: Minix3

  • From: "David Rakestraw" <rakestrawdavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:45:48 -0500

I don't know if anyone that pays dues to the lug will be using this (any more
than you do) for production work. 
If you are asking if anyone is interested enough to download, install and play
with it...with the intent to add it to their list of tools if the situation
arises...done.

I guess I agree that this might not be a Linux "LUG" topic.


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---------- Original Message -----------
From: MrKnisely <mrknisely@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:35:07 -0500
Subject: [ncolug] Re: Minix3

> Henry Keultjes wrote:
> 
> > David Rakestraw wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> I agree...mostly, but installed minix3 on a usb stick just for the 
> >>> hell of it
> >>> and was impressed that it boot without problems on my laptop.
> >>>
> >>> Although this is not a Desktop OS, there is less and less need for 
> >>> desktops
> >>> and more need for fast, cheap, simple, networkable OSs. As networks 
> >>> and the
> >>> Internet get faster and more efficient, these little guys can be 
> >>> used on very
> >>> inexpensive devices to connect network appliances or "throw-away" 
> >>> devices.
> >>> Remote desktops to Xservers using cheap expendable devices for example. 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Here is one of those type of devices http://www.projectblackdog.com/ 
> > to which one of my PowerPc buddies porten http://www.openqm.org  an 
> > Open Source version of Pick.
> >
> > BTW, Larry, that message of David Rakestraw never showed up on my system.
> >
> > Henry
> >
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> Do you see any of us in this LUG building such a device?
> 
> Mike K.
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