[LUAU] on-topic, finally!

[Andrew Maddox]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Charles Lockhart wrote:

> Are you looking for something that would boot from bios, or boot from an 
> installed bootloader?

I think it would need to boot from BIOS, so the laptops would have to 
support that. Gotta check that with the potential business partners.

Doing it from grub/lilo from a minimal on-disk installation to a USB device 
is a lot easier, and can be done on older hardware pretty trivially.

> I think it's a cool idea, in the same way that knoppix is cool, or linux on a 
> floppy is cool.  I don't know if you could sell it, but maybe worth a try.

That's the general angle I'm going to talk to these guys with tomorrow.

> What's a "SAGE" group?

http://www.sage.org/

There's an unofficial chapter (non-affiliated, complex to explain) in DC 
that I help run, I'm listmom and one of the meeting coordinators. Used to 
be part of Usenix (http://www.usenix.org/), this year SAGE was spun off (is 
in the process of being spun off, really) into an independent corporation, 
but both are definitely worth joining in some cases, for different reasons.

Hit me in private email for longer detailed discussion of that...

Cheers,
haole Andy

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