On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:47:03PM -0500, Warren Duclos wrote: > I really find your website impressive.
It would help if you would tell us exactly which website you're referring to. I assume you're talking about http://www.debian.org/, or some site with a debian.org suffix. > Some of our students are getting into Linux and have inquired as to whether > I can provide an open Linux server for them to use to learn and experiment. Well, that's easy enough to do. I maintained a set of such systems for a few years when I was at Uni. > Can you or a colleague tell me: > > 1. what is the relationship of the website to Yale? http://www.debian.org <==> Yale the place of higher learning? None that I'm particularly aware of. They might host a box or two for us, but they're not listed on the Partners page. > 2. what is the hardware you use to support the site? The site www.debian.org is running on a dual Pentium III-700, 512MB of RAM. Info on all of the machines used by the project for various things can be found at http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi. > 3. who administers the site -- students of Yale? or?? Volunteer administrators from around the world. Some of them might be students, for all I know some of them might not even be out of high school yet. > 4. how are costs covered -- what budget does it come out of? Donations. Some people donate money, which we spend on things that haven't been donated in other ways. A lot of the time people donate hardware, rack space, or bandwidth. And, as always, it's held together by people who donate their time. > Anything else that might help me prepare to initiate something like this > for the use of students -- would be appreciated. Development of a free operating system? You might like to perhaps encourage your students to get involved with us, instead of reinventing the wheel. If you're back to talking about your open-access educational server, I'd dig up an unused machine on campus somewhere (I'm sure you'd have at least a GHz machine going spare somewhere, talk to your tech guys), find someone with a bit of Linux knowledge, and tell them to set it up as whatever sort of server your students want. - Matt
