Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also have an offer from one of Brian's friends (he was lent one of the > Netwinders). He is willing to give a few people accounts on his > Netwinder. He just has a few security concerns to address first (he's > got to pick up a hub to connect the Ne

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When/if they are ready and Corel doesn't want to sell them directly, > someone like varesearch or linuxmall could be convinced to become > resellers. (Or even Red Hat would be interesting...) Even non-traditional channels could resell them (as long as

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Behan Webster
Jim Pick wrote: > > Sign me up - I can come up with $1000 CDN no problem. Drat. Sorry. I just talked to one of the Netwinder developpers. It doesn't sound like they are selling the Netwinder yet. Even to developpers. Just lending them out. Although I get the feeling that they will start sel

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Behan Webster
Steve Dunham wrote: > > I'd like to see the Corel Computers used as generic cheap Linux > Computers. They are reported to be fairly cheap, perform reasonably > well and have lots of neat I/O features. (NTSC in/out, 2 ethernet > ports.) The demo I saw seemed to show the Netwinder to be pretty fa

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Shaleh
They are not out yet. I think they are talking August 1. Pre-production demos/betas are floating around. I played w/ one of these at Linux Expo. Currently it is a mix of a.out and ELF and RH 4.2 kludged w/ 5.x. So the software is flaky and the compilation tools are still being tweaked. On top

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > They are only giving discounts to OCLUG members, but since I'm in OCLUG, > > I could probably approach the appropriate people to do some enquiries. > > I wouldn't hold your breath though. OCLUG is very RedHat b

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They are only giving discounts to OCLUG members, but since I'm in OCLUG, > I could probably approach the appropriate people to do some enquiries. > I wouldn't hold your breath though. OCLUG is very RedHat based. I've talked to some of the Corel guys

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Behan Webster
Jim Pick wrote: > > Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I bet we could brow-beat Corel into donating a few boxes. I heard > > > they go as cheap as $300 US for a diskless configuration. > > > > It's all just rumors, I've heard nothing back from them. We might > > have to brow-beat

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I bet we could brow-beat Corel into donating a few boxes. I heard > > they go as cheap as $300 US for a diskless configuration. > > It's all just rumors, I've heard nothing back from them. We might > have to brow-beat them into selling boxes. You

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: > > >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network > > >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? > > Vincent Renardias is appar

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: > >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network > >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? > > Vincent Renardias is apparently working on an arm port of Debian (In bug

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: > >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network > >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? > > Vincent Renardias is apparently working on an arm port of Debian (In bu

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? Vincent Renardias is apparently working on an arm port of Debian (In bug #21327 against ftp.debian.org, he asks for a binary

Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? The pictures of these machines look really sexy, and I've heard that rumors that they have decent performance and near $1k prices (with video input and two ethernet ports).