[139] in DeathTongue Changes
Re: Video Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aidan Low)
Wed Feb 3 17:01:05 1999
From: Aidan Low <aidan@MIT.EDU>
To: Fast Cart <fastcart@MIT.EDU>
Cc: licks@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:51:59 EST."
<9902032151.AA16392@grumpy-fuzzball.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:00:51 EST
I've heard from a couple people now that deathtongue is Really Broken.(tm)
I'm going to go take a look tonight and figure out what I think.
So we have a few choices:
1. Redo the whole system with just NT4. This means that the machine will be
somewhat reliable, but we won't be able to play around with NT5 stuff right
now. This seems like the best solution to me, since if the machine isn't
usable there's no point to having it there.
2. Continue with this dual-boot system. I don't really see the point of
this, since it just means that everything needs to be installed twice and
people will need to reboot the machine if anyone actually uses both
partitions or whatever.
3. Redo the whole system with just NT5. Given our reports of NT5's
instability, this seems a poor idea, though it made sense to me once given
that no one seems to use NT4 anymore.
I'm willing to do whichever of these seems to make sense. What I really want
to do is to get Deathtongue to a point where it's a useful machine that
people might randomly sit down to use instead of one of the linux boxes
because it does most of the same stuff that they want to do.
For that reason, I advocate choice 1, and volunteer myself to do it as soon
as people on this list tell me if they have any reasons why I shouldn't.
Anyway,
Aidan
aidan@mit.edu
http://www.mit.edu/~aidan/
