Ah, I apologise about misunderstanding the scope of the mission. I think this is a great thing yall are doing and I certianly welcome it and I know many linux users and linux newbies will definatly appreciate having their favorite linux distro and open source software freely available at the local library. My friend Kris and I have tossed about the idea of making a machine called the "Oven". This would be an LCD driven device where you have a menu of distros that you can pick from, and you pay $1 for a blank CD-R at the circulation desk (or bring your own for free) and it will burn the .iso for you while you wait. (so far it's only been talk, but we would really like to make this happen, we just need to do it) Also it would/should be able to connect to the internet (or not if in a remote location) and get the latest distros.
About the statewide linux webservers, when the state library upgraded their computers they had a bunch of pentium 233mhz computers with 8GB hard drives and 32MB of ram left over. What they decided to do is to donate these computers to libraries that have an internet connection to be a webserver for them. Basically all the library had to do is get the computer plug it into the wall and plug it into the network and turn it on and they had their own webserver. The preloaded the server with mandrake 7.0 (latest version at the time) and frontpage extensions so that the could easily maintain it via MS Frontpage. If they chose not to update the site, it came preloaded wiht a static page already on it with all of the contact information for that parish. All of the DNS was done at the state library and the websites were www.YOURPARISH.lib.la.us For the more advanced parishes it already had perl and php installed, and some of us have added mysql as well as other features. The best part about all of this is that it didn't cost any of the libraries a dime. (unless they had to buy frontpage, but most had it already with the office suite) Also, you got me curious. You might have notice the frontpage banner in the source. I did check uptime.netcraft.com for www.state.lib.la.us Operating System and Web Server for www.state.lib.la.us --------------------------------------------------------------------- The site www.state.lib.la.us is running Apache/1.3.9 (NetRevolution Advanced Extranet Server/Linux-Mandrake) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 PHP/3.0.13 mod_perl/1.21 on Linux. Thought so ;-) Here is Vermilion's server... check out that uptime ;) http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=on&mode_w=on&site=www.vermilion.lib.la.us It's at 318 days now....got to love linux (and battery backups). Adam _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
