From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: What's happening? Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030606091116.P82267@agora.rdrop.com> References: <3EE05643.32EEF307@lulop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3EE05643.32EEF307@lulop.com> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org I'll give you my take on it: I suppose the U.S. it probably the worst place to use as an example because you can probably get a good Pentium for free :) Anyway, I recently bought *another* IBM PC, in good working condition, with a 30 meg MFM drive added, for $1, and decided I'd get *another* IBM green mono monitor, so I spent another $1. In other words, the only difficulty I've had finding working hardware is that most people have gotten rid of it years ago. I made an ELKS boot and root disk and it booted up with no problem, and works great. I made another disks with a terminal emulator on it, and had problems getting it working right. I can fool with all the usual UNIX commands, but that isn't very exciting, and I don't know of any other good aplication. Dan On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Emanuele Galloni wrote: > > Thank you Jerry, > I did get it and it seams good. > The fact that you are going to Rwanda makes it even better. > One of the things I was working on is the following: > Originally, some of you guys were saying that ELKS, since it can run on > any pc, from an 8088 to a Pentium IV, could > be a very useful in developing countries where old computers are much > more common that the newest ones. > Is there anybody who can give me some infos about this side of ELKS? > Many thanks. > Emanuele > > "jerryc@innerpeace.org" wrote: > > We're not in London, we're in the Smokey Mountains of Asheville NC US. > > But we could do an email interview. > > I don't know what your schedule is, but I'm headed to Rwanda in July > with the Inner Peace work. If it's real important to do something in > person, I might be able to route myself that way and do a layover. > > I just did a post with a little info about what we're doing. If you > didn't get it, let me know. > > Emanuele Galloni wrote: > > Hello guys, > > I am still trying to give to ELKS some sort of media resonance.. I > would like > > to video- interview somebody about it and shoot some computers and > palmtops > > running it. I am based in London (UK) from were I cover things for > Lulop.com. > > If anybody is still interested and is not too far from here, please, > let me > > know. > > Emanuele > > > > > > > > Richard Wallman wrote: > > > > > >>On 5 Jun, Miguel Bolanos wrote: > >> > >> > >>>In the new site we will have the status of the project, as well as > the > >>>TODO list and docs, this site is intended to be available in > several > >>>languages. > >> > >>If you need web space, I'll happily provide some. > >> > >> > >>>Regarding the project it self, the last commit was indeed several > months > >>>ago, i am trying to organize my time to get back into all this. > >> > >>That's okay, I just thought it may have been abandoned altogether! I > > >>may get round to finished my xmodem and compression programs then... > > >>-- > >>Richard Wallman > >>http://www.murkygoth.uklinux.net/elks > >> > >>- > >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-8086" in > >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-8086" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htm > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >