[619] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: New Dell 486 has arrived
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martha H Greenberg)
Wed Jul 6 08:24:26 1994
From: "Martha H Greenberg" <marthag@bbn.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 08:25:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: nocturne@MIT.EDU
"New Dell 486 has arrived" (Jul 6, 7:46am)
To: nocturne@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, sipb-486-discussion@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-staff@MIT.EDU
sipb-staff should be included in the discussion, as it involves an
office machine.
Martha
On Jul 6, 7:46am, nocturne@MIT.EDU wrote:
> Subject: New Dell 486 has arrived
>
> Is there a "right mailing list" for this? Neither of the ones I
thought of
> seem quite right.
>
> Is it clear what people are going to want to do with lola-granola's
disk
> space? With the work already having been done for linux-athena, and
the
> alpha-testing of AFS for linux being mere weeks away, NetBSD no
longer seems
> all that thrilling. I'd guess that proven would like to have a decent
NetBSD
> machine to use, but I don't know who else is really interested in
working on
> it.
>
> Do we want to have two linux-athena workstations when Derek's AFS
port
> become available for alpha testing? I would think that a stable
workstation
> would be a good thing to have during this period.
>
> ----
>
> I sort of adopted her this evening. In lieu of the upcoming NetBSD
release,
> which won't actually be available for a while yet, I'll be putting a
fairly
> full install of linux-athena on lola-granola. :-)
>
> If you have a burning desire to install something on lola-granola in
the
> next few days, please talk to me. The partitions are in a state of
flux
> right now, until I get a Slackware-2.0.0-based Linux-Athena install
in
> place. Don't bother telling me that we might not want that; I'd like
at
> least the machine to be usable until we figure out what we'd like to
do with
> it. I don't mind doing a little extra work.
>
> - Eric
>-- End of excerpt from nocturne@MIT.EDU
