In a message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:48:16 EST
Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
Paul Lussier said:
What makes the Alpha systems proprietary, I guess commercial
level would be a more apropos description, is that it has
things like EEPROMs.
Well, I think we're in danger of getting into
In a message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:49:23 EST
Rich Payne said:
shameless plug
This is one thing I've learned to like about Alphas..
/shameless plug
Right, theyy fall into the category of Proprietary Hardware :)
- JumpStart is a much more mature product and therefore a lot
This was sent to me internally, but cites external/public references;
I'm kind of assuming (as dangerous for me as that is...) that
Macmillan is the Mandrake distribution that Macmillan is marketing (well).
From SuSE...Recent PCData report on retail Linux (x86) kit sales in the US.
Forgot to mention that you can buy the Linksys DSL router or a switch at
Best Buy, and probably any other store that sells computer products. For an
ethernet card, what I always do is go to
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/, and print out the list of supported
ethernet cards. Then, I buy
Hi,
Do you want DSL or a cable modem? If so I recommend getting LinkSys
DSL/Cable router. It acts as a 10/100 switch internally. It also acts as a
gateway to your DSL modem/Cable modem. Here's how it works (overview):
1) The linksys router either uses dhcp or a static address to gain a
Rich Payne said:
Add to that the fact you can completly control the machine over ther
serial port, and I rarely have to get up out of my ofice (yes, I am
lazy).
This *can* be done on all x86 machines too, once you get past the
BIOS. BIOS control can also be had on machines which support
Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
This was sent to me internally, but cites external/public references;
I'm kind of assuming (as dangerous for me as that is...) that
Macmillan is the Mandrake distribution that Macmillan is marketing (well).
I'm not sure that's the case... I've bought
In a message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:05:01 EST
Rich Payne said:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Only if you think that DE500 (aka Tulip based) and Intel EEpro100 network
cards using a PCI bus are propriatary :)
I mean the system as a whole. The proprietary-ness comes from the
When I worked as a network administrator at my university we developed
an imaging system called JACAL that does this same task except it
does it for Windows NT and Linux and can create dual-boot systems.
It's been in use there for a couple of years.
Basic idea, put a floppy in the drive, type in
Ken D'Ambrosio said:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Derek Martin wrote:
I'm not sure that's the case... I've bought RH distributions from
MacMillan before, so it may be multiple distros...
Really? Wow... do they do other distributions, too? I have to admit, I
think they do a reasonably good
Sure, sorry. PXE is Intel's Pre Execution Environment. In the past it really
only applied to network boots. As such we had to use something called BPBatch.
Just recently though they've allowed booting to the hard drive. Basically, when
the machine boots it, before it loads the OS, it goes up
In a message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:48:35 EST
Greg Kettmann said:
We use RH's Kickstart and PXE Linux to avoid the diskette problem and to make
decisions at boot time as to whether we'd like to boot across a network or
from the local hard drive.
[...snip...]
PXE Linux (or even just PXE)
In a message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:02:09 EST
Ken D'Ambrosio said:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Right, so we just need more people running Linux on desktops in large
corporations :)
Kickstart is widely used at Cisco -- most all of the print servers are
installed with it, and
One charge leveled against Open Source is that it's just a bunch of
college kids hacking. I knew I'd seen the article somewhere that
refutes that, and here it is:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue57/2931.html
Note not only the education and years of experience, but that 1/3 of the
Now, if they were to add features to their system which did not exist
from any other vendor, then that would be *really* proprietary.
I disagree with that. If we were to do something and not tell anyone
else how to do it, then it would be proprietary. If we added a feature
and it
My name is Alicia Brown and I work in product marketing
gathering requirements from system administrators to build a
systems management tool on the Linux platform. I am looking
to talk to Linux system administrators about the pains they
expereince when they adminster Linux servers in a
http://www.freeos.com/articles/3800/
Interesting article (with picture!) on IBM's watch that runs Linux. Even
more interesting - It's running X!
Also note the international development - they had guys from the US,
India, and Japan working on this.
jeff
Check out:
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/index.html
(Disclaimer, I haven't actually tried it)
jeff
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Right, so we just need more people running Linux on desktops in large
corporations :)
Kickstart is widely used at Cisco -- most all of the print servers are
installed with it, and I believe the Linux desktop rollout now uses it, as
well, though I left
Tom,
I ran across this site the other day. I do not accept responsibility
for anyone who may be offended by the content. I will however say
that the technical content is very good.
The site is the Coffee Cup Club: http://www.c-cup.com. They have
supermodels explain how to set up and
Paul Lussier wrote:
In a message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:05:01 EST
Rich Payne said:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Only if you think that DE500 (aka Tulip based) and Intel EEpro100 network
cards using a PCI bus are propriatary :)
I mean the system as a whole. The
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
In a message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:05:01 EST
Rich Payne said:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
Only if you think that DE500 (aka Tulip based) and Intel EEpro100 network
cards using a PCI bus are propriatary :)
I mean the system as
Thanks to Warren Mansur for his useful answer, but I'm not looking for an
internet connectivity solution (well that's not true; I am but that's related
to the LAN issue). My question is really limited to just the LAN. Here in
Peterborough, Interent access options are pretty much limited to
We use RH's Kickstart and PXE Linux to avoid the diskette problem and to make
decisions at boot time as to whether we'd like to boot across a network or
from the local hard drive. This allows us to manage many nodes in a cluster
and easily reconfigure a cluster in a matter of minutes. SuSE has
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote:
Paul Lussier said:
What makes the Alpha systems proprietary, I guess commercial
level would be a more apropos description, is that it has
things like EEPROMs.
Well, I think we're in danger of getting into a semantic battle
Paul Lussier said:
What makes the Alpha systems proprietary, I guess commercial
level would be a more apropos description, is that it has
things like EEPROMs.
Well, I think we're in danger of getting into a semantic battle
here, but I'd like to clarify things a bit. The various
- RH requires a boot floppy because PC's generally don't
have EEPROMs on them and every PC is different
shameless plug
This is one thing I've learned to like about Alphas..the
console firmware has drivers for NIC cards and can netboot the linux
kerneland that kernel file
Now that my new Slackware machine is up and running everything my old machine
did (and I'm *this* close to getting Oracle up) I want to build my first LAN.
I guessing I need a hub and a couple of NICs. Eventually there will be at
least one Windows machine on the LAN but for now it will
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