[plug] Installfest - demo machines

[Paul Baumgarten]

It really depends on what you want the machine for... if you want just a
PC that can get wiped over a dozen types during the course of the day
while people experiment with installing linux etc then that is one
thing.  If you want a machine that you can say "look this is a live
working linux box that someone uses to do their stuff with instead of
windows" then that is another... taking in production machines means the
donator is running the risk of having a broken production machine by the
end of the day.

I would be reluctant to bring in any of our production machines for the
very reason that if it got broken during the installfest I would be
spending the next couple of days reinstalling and then more to the point
reconfiguring back to a working server.  But I could possibly bring in a
couple of Celeron-333's or similar for a format-at-will purpose that are
currently inhabited by Win95.

The other thought I just had that I can't remember seeing mentioned is
networking gear?  Wouldn't a hub (or switch) or two be handy?  

Paul

Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> So far we have:
> 
> Matt Kemner can bring "spark" (it would be good of spark could still function,
> ie Matt dials WASP and rowts <G,D,R> appropriately) and presumably "live".
> 
> Brad Campbell can bring four Debian machines. Ooh, six Debian machines so far,
> zero others...
> 
> Leon can bring his desktop (K6-II-300, 64M, Banshee, Mandrake, 17-inch monitor),
> a repentant Windows machine (Cyrix 333, probably Mandrake, 14-inch monitor) and
> his gateway (486SLC, 12M, 225M HDD, no video card or keyboard - or even box, for
> that matter, Mandrake).
> 
> We need some RedHat, SuSE, Slackware and other demos as well, methinks.
> 
> --
> If life is merely a joke, the question remains: for whose amusement?

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Paul Baumgarten
Information Systems Manager, Kingsway Christian College
Proprietor, Bauma Technologies
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