Hi, On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:40:22PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > I think we should have a good performing machine at the demo point > (I'd prefer a GHz i386, but nobody offered one so far, so we could use > the 300-500 MHz i386 offered by Jörg Jaspert). > > Then we may need a machine to run the beamer (or does everyone who > uses it bring a laptop with him?). > > At the back of the booth we can place the different architectures: > > - powerpc: - Power Macintosh 7200/90 (Jens Schmalzing) > - m68k: - Mac Quadra 650 (Michael Schmitz) > - Atari Falcon (Michael Schmitz) > - Atari TT (Michael Schmitz) > - alpha: - SX164 (533MHz) (Thimo Neubauer) > - AlphaStation 200 4/166MHz (128MB) (Roland Rosenfeld) > - sparc: - SparcStation 4 (Andreas Müller) > > What machines from this set do we need (3*m68k seems to be quite much > to me)? > > Does it make sense to show two alphas? Ummh. I thought that we already disussed the computers for the booth... At least I proposed a list in http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2002/debian-events-eu-200205/msg00014.html and in the following thread nobody really objected. The most interesting reply was yours telling us that you think that your Alpha is too slow. That's why I replied that I organized a faster Alpha which I'm installing at the moment. I thought that it would be implicitly clear that IMHO only the faster Alpha makes sense. I also already discussed the three m68k and proposed to show none of them at all. There was no reply at all telling "I think that we should show them", thus I assumed that the consensus was to let the m68k-boxes stay home... > What software should we install/run on the machines? I don't think > that we want to see the backs of 5 developers reading their mail, so > the machines should show some demo or something like this. As far as > I know most machines are not the most recent hardware, so high > performance graphics demos may not be the best choice. But simply > running bb (the aalib demo) also doesn't sound too interesting. So > what do we want to run on the machines? xaos is always nice ;-) I'd suggest that one machine shows something spectacular all the time and the rest is mainly for personally showing features to the visitors. Just my .02 euro CU Thimo -- Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 frozen! See http://www.debian.org/ for details
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