[wellylug] A little project....
Damon Lynch
damon at dev-zone.org
Thu Aug 1 20:22:26 NZST 2002
I thought I'd mention that I have set up a "public access Internet
terminal" in our office: Cyrix 166, 32MB RAM. Mandrake 8.2, Mozilla and
a lightweight window manager.
S l o w
R e a l l y s l o w
:-)
Damon
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 19:54, Lindsay Hunter wrote:
Right. That changes things perhaps? Should be postpone any serious
discussion for 7 days?
Lindsay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group [mailto:rob at ubietygroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 01 August, 2002 19:27
> To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] A little project....
>
>
> Sorry for the lack of communication.
>
> The 2020 Trust are intending to send a representitive to the next
> WellyLUG meeting on Monday to talk about what they are doing and what
> help they would like.
>
> Rob.
>
>
>
> Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills wrote:
>
> > What's the status of this little project, anyone taking up
> Lindsays offer?
> >
> > --- Tony
> >
> > At 15:46 15-07-02 +1200, Rob wrote:
> > ...
> > >I have been speaking with the '2020 Communications Trust'. They have
> > >been given 400 PCs (mostly Pentium with 64MB memory) from the Wgtn City
> > >Council to distribute to charitable organisations within Wellington.
> > >
> > >A problem they have is that this PCs often come without the MS licences
> > >and to pay for them is not an option. The would prefer to investigate
> > >putting open source software onto these machines so that they
> are usable
> > >by the non-profit orgs and then they don't have to worry about being
> > >audited.
> > >
> > >I have suggested that this could be a project for the WellyLUG members
> > >to come up with a solution. Due to the age/power of the
> machines loading
> > >RH7.3 and cranking up Gnome/Nautilus is not going to be
> viable. There is
> > >also the question of ongoing support and training which will need to
> > >have answers.
> > >
> > >If we are interested in taking on this challenge the 2020
> > >representitives will come to the next WellyLUG meeting.
> > ...
> >
> >
> > At 21:19 20-07-02 +1200, Lindsay wrote:
> > ...
> > >Perhaps we could meet and see if we know enough to proceed. We need
> > pilot
> > >an install in a similar spec PC. Sat 3 August at Rongotai. 0900.
> > Lets see
> > >what we can do? We don't need to move until we have confidence in both
> > >Linux and ourselves.
> > ...
> >
> >
> >
> >
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