On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
There has been a lot of recent discussion about what to do with
PII machines. Lets build a cluster. (Where can we find the
room/power/AC?)
You can do a rough and tumble calculation. To match a lowest-
I usually get asked questions along the lines of 'What's the Open Source
alternative to WS FTP LE?' It pains me to see people using these kinds
of deprecated shareware products past the 30-day trial period... Like
WinZip.
So I started a page to list the FOSS alternatives to proprietary
Julian Yap wrote:
I was wondering, what are your favorite FOSS alternatives?
IMHO, one of the best sites to point people to is:
http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
Quote from the site:
*About this Site*
Open Source Windows is a simple list of the best free and open source
software for
Jim Thompson wrote:
Dude... they're providing their own power.
That will make things even worse.
If you're going to go all MIPS/watt on us, I'm going to start
talking about reconfigurable
computing. ___
Will be more than happy to entertain your
Julian Yap wrote:
I usually get asked questions along the lines of 'What's the Open Source
alternative to WS FTP LE?' It pains me to see people using these kinds
of deprecated shareware products past the 30-day trial period... Like
WinZip.
So I started a page to list the FOSS alternatives to
Jim Thompson wrote:
If memory serves, I'd queried why you deemed it important that the
number of processes on a desktop OS be minimized.
At the outset, you want to minimize the number of processes running on a
desktop machine so it will boot faster. Beginning version 10.0, SuSE
uses parallel
--- Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
If memory serves, I'd queried why you deemed it important
that the
number of processes on a desktop OS be minimized.
At the outset, you want to minimize the number of processes
running on a
desktop machine so it
Wayne,
Swing by McKinley sometime on Saturday. We can have a chat/run
through of Samba. We can install it on a spare donated machine.
It's all pretty simple if you stick to the GUI utilities with
RedHat distros. Maybe there's a specialized Linux Samba Server
distro?
I'm taking classes
Julian Yap wrote:
Wayne,
Swing by McKinley sometime on Saturday. We can have a chat/run
through of Samba.We can install it on a spare donated machine.
My wife is out of town that may give a window to do just that.
It's all pretty simple if you stick to the GUI utilities with
RedHat
