[Wftl-lug] alanw(Tuxzine)

[Patrick Green]

Ya know, I have been trying to figure out where I would fit in the world of
Tux Zine.  Thank you for doing the word review.  I am always reading books
on Linux and OSS, especially those targeted at newbies and the culture.  My
library is ever growing.  Time to share those thoughts and suggestions and
sugget what to avoid.  Thanks Christian.

Patrick

On 1/8/07, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/8/07, Charles McColm <twccomprec at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I will check out Vida though, it sounds interesting.
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> > For the purpose of TuxZine I built a different machine:
> > Pentium III 600MHz (Asus motherboard)
> > 640MB RAM (1 x 256MB PC100, 3 x 128MB PC100)
> > 14GB IDE hard drive
> > 16MB Nvidia video card (not onboard)
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> I think that this  is going to be a very interesting review, and I look
> forward to reading it.  I have had the experiece of trying to install a
> reasonably wide variety of Linux distros on Dell Optiplex GX 110 boxes, and
> I have had a problem with them simply not booting up.  I am somewhat of an
> inexperienced tech supporter, as I am an attorney by trade, and so I muddle
> through as best I can.  In fact, I consider my lack of skills to be an
> important part of my contribution to FOSS, because it makes me something of
> a good test subject.  I am HIGHLY motivated to figure out problems, and so I
> feel that if I am not able to successfully install something, then the
> community needs to know about it and consider making easier installers.  I
> mean I will continue laboring on long after a sane person would have given
> up.  Heh.
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> We do have a number of low-end boxes, and yet I feel that once the actual
> digital tipping point arrives and people start to accept Linux in a massive
> way, we are going to see people finding uses for these old boxes, such as
> routers and file servers, etc.  So I am stubbornly loathe to give them up,
> although the day is coming where I might just have to suck it up and say
> good-bye to them.  I also feel as if we have not really reached an efficient
> method for a distributed method of inventorying boxes like this.  I mean,
> imagine a type of Google for hardware.  Think of the mountain of hardware
> that is lying hidden in every major city in North America (and probably
> similar for major cities on every continent).  That represents a MASSIVE
> amount of computing power.  If nothing else, imagine what could be done for
> science by getting those potential CPU cycles on line and allowing
> folding at home to use those cycles to sequence amino acids, for example.
> The power of those boxes is simply staggering.
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> This machine will serve as a test machine for various distributions.
> > While it isn't good enough to run 64bit distributions, the 640MB of
> > RAM makes it a pretty sweet machine. If I was costing it out the
> > machine would run about $60CDN with only 128MB, ot it's a pretty
> > reasonable machine for those on a shoestring budget.
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> Exactly.  That box has life left.
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> One of the first
> > articles for the magazine is going to be a comparison of distributions
> > you might not see in a magazine like Linux Journal. I've already set
> > up and done some testing of one distribution.
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> I think that this is a wonderful thought for TuxZine.
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