to. den 20.11.2008 klokka 20:20 (+0100) skreiv Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Bjarne Nielsen] > > I thought I'd try to fix this before the gathering in > > December. Anyone who has suggestions to what equipment should be > > included - please speak up. > > Very good to see you volunteering to fix this. :) > > Not sure what should be included, but here are a few ideas: > > - some commonly used laptops > - OLPC > - one machine with the 4 VGA on one PCI card from Brasil > - a machine with a DVD burner > - some small thin clients / diskless workstation style machines > - a USB camera supported by v4l/v4l2 > - machines with different network cards and wireless cards >
Asus Eee Box ? > > Initially I'd say a machine or two that could be used as servers, a > > few different clients, and one or two laptops. Should all equipment > > be compatible with some specific kernel version out-of-the-box, or > > is it better to have some different equipment, and then make lenny > > work with the equipment in question? > > I do not have any strong opinions here. As the machines will hang > around a while (the old ones are very old :), I belive we should not > be too worried about hardware support in etch, at least, but we should > stay away from hardware produced by vendors not friendly to linux, if > this make it unlikely the hardware will ever be supported by the > GNU/Linux distributions. > > Happy hacking, > -- > Petter Reinholdtsen > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
