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Article #36Re: Free-Net organizational Committee: Hardware & Software Issues; Set-up
From: Tim Arnold
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 00:41
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 00:41
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So far, my machine is not aware of the triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd put my thoughts into this group. From the recent posting concerning questions the hardware/software committee should think about: What kind of OS What manufacturer What Capacity What about Flexibility Well, just to get some discussion started, what about: UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me, multi-user, networking built-in. Manufacturer: this may be like a religious question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines are running a freenet somewhere, so the software must be SUN compatible at least. I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun) and I promise to check on what machine types are running a couple of the freenets. Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the maximum number of users is the question?) Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday night, so does that mean we need at least 100 possible simultaneous users? So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a Sparc 10 would be great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located in some small office in RTP. By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS into the machine? Are the current packages running on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer different access modes? I'll see what I can find out about the already existing freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do you think? -- Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ. BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695 Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: triangle.freenet From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold) Path: arnold Distribution: world Followup-To: Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU Subject: hardware/software Keywords: So far, my machine is not aware of the triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd put my thoughts into this group. From the recent posting concerning questions the hardware/software committee should think about: What kind of OS What manufacturer What Capacity What about Flexibility Well, just to get some discussion started, what about: UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me, multi-user, networking built-in. Manufacturer: this may be like a religious question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines are running a freenet somewhere, so the software must be SUN compatible at least. I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun) and I promise to check on what machine types are running a couple of the freenets. Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the maximum number of users is the question? Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday night, so does that mean we need at least 100 possible simultaneous users? Flexibility and growth are big words for me. So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a 10 would be great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located in some small office in RTP. By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS into the machine? Are the current packages running on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer different access modes? I'll see what I can find out about the already existing freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do you think? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ. BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695 Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: triangle.freenet From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold) Path: arnold Distribution: world Followup-To: Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU Subject: hardware/software Keywords: So far, my machine is not aware of the triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd put my thoughts into this group. From the recent posting concerning questions the hardware/software committee should think about: What kind of OS What manufacturer What Capacity What about Flexibility Well, just to get some discussion started, what about: UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me, multi-user, networking built-in. Manufacturer: this may be like a religious question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines are running a freenet somewhere, so the software must be SUN compatible at least. I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun) and I promise to check on what machine types are running a couple of the freenets. Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the maximum number of users is the question? Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday night, so does that mean we need at least 100 possible simultaneous users? Flexibility and growth are big words for me. So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a 10 would be great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located in some small office in RTP. By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS into the machine? Are the current packages running on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer different access modes? I'll see what I can find out about the already existing freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do you think? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ. BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695 Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: triangle.freenet From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold) Path: arnold Distribution: world Followup-To: Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU Subject: hardware/software Keywords: So far, my machine is not aware of the triangle.freenet.hwsw group, so I thought I'd put my thoughts into this group. From the recent posting concerning questions the hardware/software committee should think about: What kind of OS What manufacturer What Capacity What about Flexibility Well, just to get some discussion started, what about: UNIX OS, seems like a natural to me, multi-user, networking built-in. Manufacturer: this may be like a religious question, but I'm pretty sure the SUN machines are running a freenet somewhere, so the software must be SUN compatible at least. I admit to some partiality here (I work on a Sun) and I promise to check on what machine types are running a couple of the freenets. Capacity: I don't have any idea, but disk space is fairly cheap (if that's the question--maybe the maximum number of users is the question? Well, we want to be the best, right? Bill Hutchins said there were 96 users on Cleveland on a Saturday night, so does that mean we need at least 100 possible simultaneous users? Flexibility and growth are big words for me. So I'm thinking a Sun Sparc II at least (a 10 would be great with ISDN) Say 32meg memory? 1.5 gig disk, located in some small office in RTP. By the way, what about incorporating Gopher and WAIS into the machine? Are the current packages running on the FreeNets what we really want? Or maybe offer different access modes? I'll see what I can find out about the already existing freenets and post that ASAP. In the meantime, what do you think? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ. BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695 Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Arnold Instructional Computing Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu North Carolina State Univ. BITNET : ARNOLD@NCSUSTAT Dept. of Statistics, Raleigh NC 27695 Phone : 919 515 2584 FAX: 919 515 7591 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: triangle.freenet Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!concert!rock!taco!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!arnold From: arnold@essss1.stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold) Subject: Re: Free-Net organizational Committee: Hardware & Software Issues; Set-up In-Reply-To: hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu's message of Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:46:07 GMT Message-ID: <ARNOLD.92Sep2194105@essss1.stat.ncsu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU References: <1992Aug29.174607.17548@samba.oit.unc.edu> Distribution: triangle Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:41:05 GMT Lines: 258