On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:43:12AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: >Quoting andy at theasis.com (andy at theasis.com): >> > Quoting Andrew Nemchenko (drew at usfamily.net): >> > > A great Idea but how do we go about achieving this with out spending too much >> > > money? >> > >> > You get every single tclug member to commit to having a vm-linux and >> > pay some monthly fee for it. :-) I fail to see how it could be cost effective. Wouldn't it be cheaper for and easier for real-time to provide the pipe and the rack space for a few dozen SMP intel boxes all setup with virtual domains. I think the luggers would save money by doing it this way. >> >> Since "every single" is not really practical, can you give ballpark of >> total costs that need to be recovered initially/monthly, and maybe >> napkin-figurings like "we can cover costs with 20 people paying >> about $XX/month"? > >Well, I want "ever single" computer to run linux too.... > >Let Clay get the poll up. Let me finish my Linux conference presentations (yes, >more then 1) and then I can put up some numbers. > >-- >Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 >http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 >Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) $chown -R us.us yourbase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010405/b2e0c44d/attachment.pgp