[demon442]

At school, we are starting Linux next week and i'l like to inquire about the status of our linux conversion.  The computers are top-of-the-line Dell's and we are intersted in testing the performance in both Windows and Linux.  Downloading is not much of a problem, and neither is getting a Linux distro.  If someone would go through the trouble to collect all the info for me, i'd appreciate it.

[kasperl]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17364.0.html

anything that is public is in this thread.

[Bobboau]

"top-of-the-line Dell's"
hmm, an oxymoron

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Bobboau
"top-of-the-line Dell's"
hmm, an oxymoron

if i ever heard one.....


anyhow, any testing is good, and if we get the Knoppix stuff to work, we could be in for some very interesting events.

[Kazan]

"Top of the line [insert brandname]" is an oxymoron to anyone that knows jack about computers

[Inquisitor]

taylor is working on the hard parts right now, merging the linux stuff with the rest of hte project

[demon442]

OK, so they were top-of-the-line last year, but this is linux we're talking about.  512MB Ram, 2.8 GHz processors, and Geforce4 graphics cards aint too shabby for a school computer.  You'd be surprised at the quality you can get when you order 40-50 units at a time from a major vendor.  These were enterprise designed towers, not the cheap little ****s you get with their home-user designed desktops or 3\4 towers.  There is a difference.

Great to hear Inquisitor, I think we've decided on using a Mandrake distro so the newbies this year can get used to the GUI before tackling the console.  But, no big deal, just install FS2 twice and put the linux files in one and basic SCP in the other, right?