[632] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: New Dell 486 has arrived
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 13 16:53:59 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 94 14:41:43 EDT
To: nocturne@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, sipb-486-discussion@MIT.EDU, sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9407061146.AA27668@bill-the-cat.MIT.EDU> (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Right now Shabby is installing OS/2 on the machine. NetBSD is due for
a major release in about 9 days, and FreeBSD could be installed at any
time, I'm told. There may or may not be interest in Windows; I don't
know offhand.
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.
Actually, this is the question I'm interested in... Right now we have
two (three?) machines with about 1.1 (1.27)G of disk between them.
I'd suggest allocating Cutter and it's 170M drive to DOS and finding
an accesible place that doesn't eat up a lot of desk space. That
leaves us with two machines and about 6 OS's, with about 3 `major'
OS's: Linux, NetBSD, and OS/2. I don't know if anyone is really
interested in FreeBSD right now, and I suspect that both machines will
have a small DOS partition (seems easy and useful). For now, I's
suggest that quiche run linux and lola run OS/2 and NetBSD. Once AFS
for linux is ready for testing, I suspect usage patterns will have
clarified the situation quite a bit.
chad
