I think I have a 2 meg Matrox millenium here someplace. I can bring it. Do
we really need fast CPUs? And if so, what type (socket7, etc..) I am more
concerned with the software setup than anything else. There seems to be
debate over which OS will even get installed. As up as I am on OpenBSD, I
think Linux has a better 'political' chance of exceptance. If for no other
reason than it is known to EFN staff and has more mindshare. Again, I'm
just thinking at the keyboard...
Tim
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> Subject: [EUG-LUG:2390] Re: EFN Project attn: Larry
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>
> Sigh... Unfortunately I have sporatic internet access at best :(
> So... Whats going on with the project:
> we have one workstation setup for aproval... As I get
> hardware and software tweeked enough to setup boxes, and get
> aproval to replace I will...
> Im there almost all the time during the week..., I
> currently have an issue with some video cards, I can upgrade
> the crappy 1 meg cirrus logic(compaq) to matrox millenium
> ultima/impression 2 meg video cards, however I havnt gotten
> mandrake or slackware to use them (well... not well enough to
> use). These machines will also need sound cards, and cdroms
> (Ive scraped up 6 ide cdroms, and a pile of really crappy old
> soundcards with scsi cdrom controllers (and we have a ton of
> ancient scsi cdroms).
> Hopefully EFN will be able to come up with a dozen or
> so soundcards that are the same brand, and easy to use in
> windows and linux. If we can scrape up a few more ide cdroms
> we will be ok.
>
> Faster CPU's would be a good donation! the boxes will
> clock upto 200mhz, and we have 133 cpu's in them.
>
> I have a few drives setup with systems running on
> them, but they still need some work before they can be
> released to the public.
>
> Jamie
> >I really think we need more communication about the project at EFN.
> >Normally I would post to this list, but perhaps there should
> be another list
> >for this? Also, I have some rants that I would rather keep
> to myself until
> >after I talked to Larry or something. So, Larry, can I give
> you a call or
> >would you like to call me? Mike Smith and Jake Msr probably
> have some
> >thoughts too(?) I just don't think once a week is going to
> do it as far as
> >planning and execution.
> > Other opinions? I'm just throwing out my current
> thoughts on this. Should
> >I stop worrying and learn to love the bomb?
> >
> >--TimH
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