[NBLUG/talk] Use of Linux w/o an Office Suite?

[Edward Mendoza]

You know that library like the back of your hand!
I never heard anything about "oilder" terminals though. Were they really
slick?

Edward


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of ME
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [NBLUG/talk] Use of Linux w/o an Office Suite?


Actually, I think they have them on the 2nd floor near the media desk, and
on the 3rd floor. Thee are very simplified systems without any drives.
(There is not Hard Disk, or floppy disk - they actually "boot" from the
network. These Linux boxes for users are only meant to be used for web
browsing and searching the catalog. They are replacements for the oilder
terminals we had in the library. (Each cost about $600 with the monitor
included.)

They "boot" from the network by booting from a Linux Server that hands
each one a network mount volume. (There is more to it than that:
dhcp/bootp -> tftp kernel -> boot with NFS root.)

-ME

> The only place at SSU that I've seen Unix/Linux being used is in the 3rd
> floor of their library.
> They only let students browse the library catalog and surf the net and
> that's about it. There are no drives in those machines (except for the C
> drive).
>
> Thanks, Edward
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> Andru Luvisi
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:59 AM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: RE: [NBLUG/talk] Use of Linux w/o an Office Suite?
>
>
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Edward Mendoza wrote:
>>
>> I am a senior at SSU and I will graduate at the end of this month! I
> didn't
>> know you worked there. I spend A LOT of time at the SSU library and I
>> have
>> seen the mechanical arm work through the little windows (and so has my
> wife
>> and our daughter).
> [snip]
>
> Check out the "NCs" that are scattered throughout the library.  They boot
> Linux over the network.
>
> Andru
> --
> Andru Luvisi, Programmer/Analyst
>
>
> Quote Of The Moment:
>   Oliver's Law:
>           Experience is something you don't get until just after you need
> it.
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