[juneau-lug] Re: January Meeting
- From: Toby Harbanuk <tobysam@xxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:49:10 -0900
The x86 version is available too. I think you can download if from
their website. If not, there are several people in the group with the
eight CDs. The hardware support is somewhat lacking though...
Toby
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Clay Robidoux wrote:
>
> just a reminder Solaris IS free if you own the hardware... and ebay is
> just
> a few clicks away...
>
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: January Meeting
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>> I might be able to do an OSX demo in january, but no promises. Some
>
> Maybe one day we should get together with the Mac Users group. I've
> heard that some of them are pretty interested in what they can do with
> OS X, but don't really have the background for it. There's a lot that
> is installed by default - for example, last summer someone brought in
> an
> OS-X laptop. We had him open a terminal and type in `httpd` - Apache
> started right up. Many Mac users don't realize that they have all of
> these tools sitting on their box, just waiting to be used.
>
> However. Mac OS-X is not open source software. The Darwin
> underpinnings are to a point, and there is a boatload of GNU & other
> free software like Apache installed by default, but OS-X itself (Aqua,
> etc.) definitately is not. So at least in my mind, there's a limit to
> how far we should push OS-X. Helping the Mac guys understand their
> tools is a good thing though. (Who knows, maybe we can convert some of
> them from the shady-but-not-quite-as-dark-as-that-other-company side.)
> I can show off some Macs that are running Linux just to demonstrate
> that
> the hardware is in fact supported quite well by various completely free
> OS. (And if anyone has a candy colored Mac, I'd like to do an OpenBSD
> install from the bootable CD.)
>
>> other ideas for demos that I'm not really qualified to give:
>
>> In depth apache
>
> See above re OS-X. Even basic Apache would be very very useful for
> some
> people. Consider the LUG web site. That is all static HTML, nothing
> fancy at all. Works though.
>
>> Gaming party!
>
> This is something we should schedule one day. There are a few people
> who are much more interested in this than anything we've been talking
> about at meetings lately. I'm old & boring, so I don't game a lot on
> Linux aside from the odd Nethack or SameGnome session. However there
> are a LOT of network games out there - BZFlag is good, Sabre is
> supposed
> to be pretty cool, and Xpilot, etc. etc. etc. Not to mention the old
> standby of FreeCiv.
>
>> Security
>
> Stephen & Reber wanted to explore GUI firewalls. Willing to look into
> that?
>
>> Alternative platforms (sparc, ppc, alpha)
>
> For Linux, or for non-free? I must admit that my interest in non-free
> unices like Solaris & AIX is weak (although I do have AIX at home).
> I'm
> running Linux on a few PowerPC boxes, both Apple and IBM. I also have
> an HP PA-RISC box (a Visualize C-160) up and running. All with Debian.
> I have a couple of Mac 68k boxes that could run Linux or OpenBSD, but
> I've never played with them - the IBM PowerPCs distracted me. And just
> today, I found an NCD ExploraPro PowerPC based X terminal at Surplus.
>
>> Wireless
>> Video editing on linux
>
> Cool. I just put together a 2.4.20 kernel tweaked for my DV Camera. I
> found that it is hard to get everything to work just right. With a
> 2.4.18 kernel it seems that a PIII 800/256MB RAM doesn't have enough
> horsepower for Kino - it kind of works, but it freezes up when I try to
> stop & start the DV camera. I thought it was my camera or the 1394
> drivers, but when I use dvcont manually everything works fine. I
> noticed that there were some changes in the 1394 drivers, so maybe it
> will help. (If not, I have a Sandisk SDR-55 SmartMedia reader so
> needed
> 2.4.20 anyway.)
>
>>
>> There's more, but I'm kinda fried right now.
>>
>> Toby
>
> Cool ideas. I'm running out of things to demo at meetings, so keep the
> ideas rolling. Even if it's something that you don't want to demo but
> would like to see at a meeting. Might be someone else on the mailing
> list that just happens to do that all the time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
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