R. Scott Belford wrote:
Jeff Zidek has arranged for 1500, not a mis-type, 1500, Pentium 166
machines from Hickam. This is likely to be about 30 pallets worth. The
P166's we have received so far tend to have 3COM 3C905 nics, at least
16mb of ram, and pci video cards. Even if 1/3 are junk, we are still
talking about an amazing quantity of hardware. Regretfully, if I was
able to find the space to store all of these, the few of us volunteering
our time would be overwhelmed. You can help. We can use your help.
Perhaps you or your business could help store them. We have people who
want computers. We have computers to give them. We have enough
resources to create the revenue to buy servers for them. We even have
the hardware to build light but effective Terminal Servers. We just
need some of your volunteer time to make it all happen.
scott
1500 is a HUGE number. Due to the immediate storage problem that this
causes, we need to quickly find schools at which to implement LTSP labs.
Friday, February 7th, 2003
8:00pm
Channel #mplug on the Freenode IRC Network
http://freenode.net
irc://irc.freenode.net/mplug
We should get Big Island Linux Users Group
(http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/BILUG/) onboard during this meeting in order
to discuss the possibility of shipping hundreds of computers to their
island for their own LTSP rollouts at schools.
During this online meeting we should also discuss our public relations
efforts in getting Linux in local media (newspaper, magazine,
television) as well as ways of funding LTSP servers for schools.
Warren Togami
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