[wplug] Computer for Geeks+ Geek (re)training;)

[Mark Sikora]

One thing to note about these machines is they are low end and very old.
~16-32 MB RAM.  1-2 GB hard drives.

Perfect for Joe Blow learning linux.


On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Steve Kudlak wrote:

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>
> Mark Sikora wrote:
>
> > The computers for Geeks project has moved to the next phase.  Computers
> > are aquired and stored.  Now we need to see how to distrubute them.  We
> > have them stored in a garage right now.  I understand that we have a
> > sometimes dry, basement available for their storage which will be great.
> > We also need to see who wants one.  We were thinking that we could also
> > maintain a pool of machines to be loaned so if someone new comes to the
> > group and wants to learn about linux but doesn't have a machine or is
> > afraid to modify their existing machine, they can have one to learn on.
> > This is one possible use.  I know that there are already some machines
> > spoken for.  I look forward to the next installfest to get them installed
> > and off to Mexico or wherever they are going.
> >
> > That is all for now.
> >
> > Mark -<>-
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> An interesting idea...Hmm I still plan to do and
> upgrade to dual boot. In the past when the machine
> was to look at web pages and send chatty email
> to friends this would have been easier. Now I have
> real projects going on my machine a message base
> that has 77,000+ email messages on it and several
> graphic arts and small press/zine projects going on it,
> uh...like...well...my thoughts about upgrade are more
> cautious. I know people who have upgraded who had
> to pretty much abandon past work. Now happily I can
> report the worse case of that was from someone who
> went from Windows98 I believe to XP and to a new
> "Forum" system and had to throw away awhole message
> base about Small Press Issues. I personally don't want
> to tell people: "Well that's the breaks...the nice new system is
> so much more wonderful."
>
> I am pretty sure I can do this by going dual boot. My whole
> problem has/will be the fact that it will take a lot more
> individual effort on my part to get a graphic arts/publication
> system going. If I add ray tracing and animation it is going to
> be a real effort to find open source animation stuff. The GIMP
> has a lot of the features and does form a good base of stuff
> for general graphic arts work.
>
> Here I follow the messages and mostly lurk except for
> occasional outbursts or verbosity;) What even more than
> a machine I would like to hear more of, have put in a nice
> easily to get archive somewhere is all that "newbie" stuff.
> I am not quite a newbie by a long shot, but I worked in
> a much more division of labour environment. I did networks
> and security and administration. Hardware stuff meant things
> like convincing people "it is a problem with hard disk....It is
> not a software problem and it should be fixed...."  My unix
> experience is a farrago of BSD4.2 and more, SCO Unix,
> some linux and some other look alike like a Minix System."
>
> Right now when people talk about what Linux is useful for
> I would tend to want to be able to say Small Press Publication
> and Graphic Arts and be convincing. Right Now people in
> the animation and Graphic Arts field see me as a sort of
> weirdo left coast nut when I mention anything about getting
> away from Microsoft and its world. So Linux is kind of a
> metaproject for me.
>
>
> Have Fun,
> Sends Steve
>
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