On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That always irks me when I hear this kind of thing. The world is basically > windows "chauvinistic" and it's common to find little consideration given to > any other platform. > Did you know that you can create your own linux environment without having > to "touch" the machine you will be using? My wife has her own windows > machine that she doesn't want me "touching", but I have a complete linux > install via an external hard drive that leaves her machine "untouched." > Although the install is specific to that machine, it is easy to build > "universal" setups that will boot on any modern PC into Linux, without > touching the hard drive of that machine. This would require that you > bring a memory stick of some kind or perhaps an external USB hard drive. > You can get big ones really cheap now, and they are very compact. You > plug it into the USB port and then boot into Linux. > In my opinion, the tournament organizers should do this for you and the > other potential Linux participants since Linux is becoming more and more > popular and apparently it is already very popular with Go programmers. > There are several possibilities for setting up machines that could use > either Windows or Linux that would not require major effort on their part - > just one good Linux guy helping them. > > I also feel for the Mac people and also people that have built programs that > run on networks of workstations or other potential supercomputer programs > that would not be able to participate.
I have DSL-N (Damn Small Linux) on a USB stick so I can probably make something that boots. However I'm woried about the hardware support and network configuration (it has to connect to KGS). Also I think I would have to upgrade the kernel, but I don't know how easy that will be with DSL (and if I have time for it). Anyway, simply using an ssh connection to my machine at home would have been *much* easier... Erik _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
