[sudo-discuss] Hardware for the masses

[Matthew Senate]

Awesome!

Perhaps La Commune would be interested in hosting a few for general usage
in the entrance cafe/bookstore?


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Ed Biow <biow at riseup.net> wrote:

>  My crony Gerald & I picked up about 15 'puters from Youth Radio
> <https://youthradio.org/> today, and brought them to the sudoroom.  We
> also grabbed about 7 monitors and a bag full of cables.  These boxen look
> pretty sweet, dual core, Windows 8, 4 GB of RAM.  I was planning on
> installing some version of Trusty Tahr (*buntu 14.04) or maybe Debian
> testing and then using a live disc (redobackup <http://redobackup.org/>)
> to blow the image on the rest of the machines after testing the memory and
> hard drives.  Brian, the IT bloke at YR is replacing the machines with NUC
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing>s.  It looks like
> there are another 30 or so of these Dells available to us when they get
> readied. If we can spare the table space maybe we can set up a few machines
> for visitor browsing in a quiet corner somewhere. And we should have some
> nice boxes for the Oakland kids' computer center.  The four boxes I have
> ready to go are mostly pretty funky, missing panels, or very loud, etc.
> I'm sure we can find them a home, though. I also have a few more expendable
> desktop Linux machines at home.  Finding rodents, power cords, monitors &
> keyboards may prove a bit of a challenge, though I have a few extra
> keyboards and power cables.
>
> I'm planning on going camping in August, but in September I'd like to
> start hosting a weekly Linux install fest/trouble shooting session on
> Friday afternoons at 4 PM.  Folks can bring their Linux problems in for
> troubleshooting, and I can bring pizza back from a pickup I make at 8PM
> from a local collective.  Maybe if nothing else is going on we can cap the
> evening with a tech/polit-related flick to go with the pizza, perhaps even
> a round of frosty malted beverages. As I mentioned before, maybe we could
> use some always-on machine to act as a proxy for deb files, so we could
> update machines at 11MB a second instead of pounding our limited internet
> bandwidth.  I'm familiar with approx and apt-cacher, though there are
> others.  I'll bring up the idea during one of our weekly Wednesday meetings
> soon.
>
> Einstein & campaign staff
>
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