Goodies :-)
by Kevanf1
I have just been to see a chap who had offered some old PC's on
Freecycle. I went along expecting old, old PC's.... 386's and
possibly 486's if I was lucky. :-)))) well, I came away with 3 PC's
which although old are most certainly usable with Linux as two have
1.7ghz CPU's and the other I don't yet know but it's better. I also
got a nice little server of as yet unknown spec'. The guy had got
scanners, HP multi function office set ups (printer, scanner, copier
combined) and a load of monitors. It is quite amazing what turns up
:-)
At the very least I can now do some serious upgrading to my various units.
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Don't take it to the tip recycle it via the Freecycle(r) Network.
For a group near to you look here:
Worldwide
http://www.freecycle.org/
United Kingdom
http://uk.freecycle.org/
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire
18 years
meeting
by Frank & Jenny
When you are in the George & Dragon stand Facing the bar.
If you now move to your right and the end of the bar and then follow your
nose to the left you should find us all on our own in a quiet area.
Map showing how to get there attached.See you
thereFrank--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
18 years
meeting
by Frank & Jenny
Delete last message from me will send instructions after lunch.
Frank
18 years
meeting map
by Frank & Jenny
When you are in the George & Dragon stand Facing the bar.
If you now move to your right and the end of the bar and then follow your nose to the left you should find us all on our own in a quiet area.
Map showing how to get there attached.See you thereFrank
18 years
meeting
by Frank & Jenny
No decisions on meeting so picture house or nothing.
Will cancel tempory booking at George & Dragon this evening.
Apologize for not attending PH.
Cheers Frank
18 years
Meeting
by dave＠staffslug.org.uk
Hey ho..
When was the meeting arranged for? (sorry.. my emails have gone funny!)
18 years
Unicamp in Brazil joins the Linux OpenPower project
by David A. Desrosiers
Hello again! Its been a few months since the last email I've sent...
Since my last email, we've added another University server to the
growing list of universities now hosting POWER5 servers and hardware for
everyone to use for free. Developers, system administrators, tinkerers,
the curious and anyone else who wants to give them a try.
The new Gentoo and Debian PPC partitions on the UNICAMP server need your
help! Find out what's missing, load test it, put it through its paces
and let them know what can be done to improve things for everyone.
Wait, did he just say for free?
Yes, free shell access to POWER5 servers with plenty of disk, memory and
other capabilities. We've launched quite a few of these in the past at
other universities (details below).
UNICAMP, the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil is hosting a
POWER5 server that we've recently deployed there. This server is a bit
unique, because it will be hosting several different Linux distributions
on separate LPARs of the same physical machine, concurrently. Right now
there are two live partitions; Gentoo and Debian, and there are plans to
add Slackware and Fedora LPAR very shortly.
But we need your help to load test this server (without breaking it, of
course ;). Create an account, pull over some source code from some of
your favorite projects and try building and testing it under the POWER
architecture. Each server offers its own configuration and options with
your own remote shell account.
We're going to be the first of these PowerPC universities hosting this
many distributions at one time, and the first university hosting a
Slackware/PPC64 partition. When those other distrbutions come online,
you should automatically be able to log into them and continue to work
in your shell with the same account you use on the other partitions.
Here are the servers currently online:
*** UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
http://power.ic.unicamp.br
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Server........: Open Power 720
Equipment.....: 4-way POWER5
Memory........: 8GB
Installation..: Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, Fedora
Gentoo....: 143.106.24.152
Debian....: 143.106.24.153
Fedora....: To be announced
Slackware.: To be announced
Oregon State University Open Source Labs:
http://powerdev.osuosl.org/
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Server........: Apple PowerMac G5
Equipment.....: 2-Way 2.5Ghz
Memory........: 4GB
Installation..: Gentoo Linux
SourceForge.net compile farm, with OpenPower
http://sourceforge.net/docs/compile_farm#cf_overview
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Server........: OpenPower 720
Installation..: SuSE Enterprise Linux 9
Australia National University
http://clug.anu.edu.au/
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Server........: OpenPower 720
Equipment.....: 4-Way POWER5
Memory........: 2GB
Installation..: Debian
University of Augsburg, in Augsburg Germany (Debian)
http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/
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Server........: OpenPower 720
Equipment.....: 4-Way POWER5
Memory........: 8GB
Installation..: Debian
Peking University, Peking China (SuSE)
http://ppclinux.pku.edu.cn/
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Server........: OpenPower 720
Equipment.....: 4-Way POWER5
Memory........: 16GB
Installation..: SuSE Enterprise 9
Take a few moments and check out what these POWER systems actually feel
like under the hood. Sign up and log in remotely to one of the
University systems we've set up and take them for a test drive.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/openpower/
If you need any help or have any questions, just let us know!
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David A. Desrosiers
daviddes(a)us.ibm.com
Linux on POWER Developer Program Manager
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/openpower/
18 years
Welcome to a new member
by Kevanf1
Weclome aboard to Peter Cannon. A new a very knowledgable Linux user.
He won't admit that though :-)
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I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate.
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Don't take it to the tip recycle it via the Freecycle(R) Network.
For a group near to you look here:
Worldwide
http://www.freecycle.org/
United Kingdom
http://uk.freecycle.org/
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Cheslyn Hay
Staffordshire
WS6 7HR
18 years
Sunday Linux Day?
by stuart bell
Groupies,
Is anything happening in our area on Sunday?
I thought I might nip down to Lloyds and stick Mandriva 2006 on their
computer so best get your cash out while it still works.
Stuart
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Registered Linux Mangler #001
18 years
