My boss has given me permission to load up some P3 systems, I intend to install slackware, debian, centos, and suse for demo machines. My main problem with this will be monitors (or lack there of) so I will bring my 4 port KVM and hope for the best. I'll be able to man the booth for a few hours as well.
Also, are we in need of any equipment (switches, wifi access points, power strips etc...)?
Matt On 8/10/06, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
How new do the demo machines have to be to do the relatively new stuff? I've seen some $40 PIII-600Mhz machines with 128MB RAM at the Surplus Exchange, and I've been meaning to get a test machine anyway. I could even upgrade the RAM to--gasp!--256MB!
"Look at how fast this old PC runs on Linux...you'd never guess it only had 256MB RAM in it!"
Last year I brought in my very old laptop and did VNC to Monty's laptop. My laptop was running DSL Linux 0.5 off CD. If we had a regular PC and a couple of laptops the booth would look very decent.
Then all we would need is someone to borrow a LCD projector off their company and we'd have the tech booth of tomorrow...
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Are there going to be demo machines setup? It'd be cool to show people (relatively) new things like XGL that they may not know about.
Kyle
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If there will only be two machines, then I'd suggest that one run Debian and the other one run CentOS. Debian to show off a completely open source Linux distro, CentOS to demonstrate a enterprise-class Linux distro.
We'd also probably want both wired and wireless networking: my laptop only does wired networking. Also, if I remember correctly the Exhibitor hall has wireless Internet access already.
--- crash3m [email protected] wrote:
My boss has given me permission to load up some P3 systems, I intend to install slackware, debian, centos, and suse for demo machines. My main problem with this will be monitors (or lack there of) so I will bring my 4 port KVM and hope for the best. I'll be able to man the booth for a few hours as well.
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