[luau] HOSEF Moves

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Hi Michael-

I would like help you today, but Saturdays and Sundays are reserved for 
family.  Nevertheless, I will try to show up, if not today definitely 
sometime during the weekdays.

Regarding Red Hat 9, since you have quite a few ESL students in your 
classes, I would try to include as many language options as possible 
during installation.  Red Hat is the best distro in terms of providing 
multi-lingual environments.  Everyone will be awed by the way Red Hat is 
so professionally structured to run in say, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, 
or Vietnamese, language environment.

The default Red Hat installation does not install Midnight Commander, 
gnucash and gnumeric.  These are very useful utility programs, and make 
sure that you check them by hand.

If Warren is there, I would also ask him to set up access to his Fedora 
site in at least one of the systems.  Installing rpms is becoming an 
increasing pain.  I have quite a few friends pointing me to Warren's 
Fedora site, but most locals are not aware of it.

Since your machines already have Win2K installed, doing dual booting 
should be very straightforward.  If, in the future, you need to play 
with GRUB, let me know, I can be of some help.

As we chatted during King Kamehameha's birthday, I will be bringing a 
Shuttle PC (41G2, with Athlon XP 2000 underclocked to 1250 MHz) to you 
lab.  It will be configured to run, among other things, several familiar 
Windows applications such as Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, etc., 
seemlessly in Linux.  Basically, again as we discussed, it will serve as 
a demo Linux PC to show how far Linux has progressed in terms of 
providing the most desirable platform for business desktops.  I believe 
most in even our own Linux community are not aware that Linux desktops 
have become so powerful, so business-friendly.  A picture is worth a 
thousand words, and a demo is better than a thousand pictures.  If 
enough interests exist, we will add further accessories such as USB 
memory stick, USB hard disc, or even put together a Wi-Fi based mini 
LTSP, etc.

BTW, regarding SQL.  I own a small interest in a company that sells 
PHP/PostgreSQL packages.  One of our clients is China Petroleum Corp., 
which uses it in their POS operations.  Our next step is to convert 
their Windows clients to Linux (the server is based on MDK 8.2).  
PHP/SQL, in conjunction with thick or thin clients, appears to be the 
most viable avenue at the present time to make a profitable business in 
Linux.  I am not able to discuss any aspect of SQL, but will be more 
than happy to try to work out an SQL solution based on a clean-room 
approach.


Wayne


Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE at notes.k12.hi.us wrote:

>List of things needed to be done...
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>Room 205
> - needs RedHat 9 installed for dual booting with Win2K
> - RedHat needs to be updated
>Room 208
> - Network cables made and installed
> - More Mandrake boxes need to be setup
> - Mandrake needs to be updated
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>Notes:
>Room 205 has long network cables that could be taken to Room 208 to be used
>Room 205 can use the shorter ones brought from HOSEF
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>Please call me if you have any questions, 429-3030.
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>Thank you.
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>Michael
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>"Luis aka Rigpa" <rigpa108 at hotmail.com>@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 06/13/2003
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>Any work to be done at McKinley (hardware/software installs)?  Should we
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>>Once a month, The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation has an open
>>meeting
>>to discuss our objectives.  Given the numerous Linux tasks underway at the
>>McKinley Community School for Adults, we are going to hold our monthly
>>organizational meeting there.
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