Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-01 Thread willie fleming
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 23:25, ray wrote:- > > Expect the gmane facility to be up in the next couple of days. > > If you are going to add this list wholesale without requiring everyone to > rejoin after being told that their addresses will be going into a > newsgroup; then could you at least 'reque

Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-01 Thread ray
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 18:55, willie fleming wrote: > I proppose a months trial of the gmane facility and if we have any problems > during that time, we can easily back out. ... > Expect the gmane facility to be up in the next couple of days. If you are going to add this list wholesale without r

Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-01 Thread willie fleming
Ive been meaning to get off the fence on this for some time. Ive had a good look at the gmane site and cannot find any reason not to give this a try. I proppose a months trial of the gmane facility and if we have any problems during that time, we can easily back out. Expect the gmane facility t

Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-01 Thread tony
Let's do it and could someone supply us with a link/info resource to learn more about how to use gmane effectively. thanks in advance. Tony Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry for the unconventional quoting, but, basically: > > 'What the man says' :-) > > gmane really is the ideal way to

Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?

2003-04-01 Thread tony
Should we arrange with the list manager (Willie Fleming) to stop our archival posts? I can't remember the site name but we have been archiving for the last couple of years or so. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tony Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's the benefit to ME again? > > You, or

RE: [Scottish] Linux on RS/6000

2003-04-01 Thread Michael Cameron
>Have you looked at NetBSD? >Cheers, > Gordon I had not but will do, thx ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

RE: [Scottish] Linux on RS/6000

2003-04-01 Thread Michael Cameron
>> which most of the time is switched off > >I'd be happy to take it off your hands if it's just gathering dust. :-) > And if it were my own I'm sure I'd be happy to give it to you. If I keep my mouth shut and don't make a fuss it will be forgotten. The minute I mention it (never mind dispose of

Re: [Scottish] Linux on RS/6000

2003-04-01 Thread Graeme Mathieson
"Michael Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks. I was looking at probably just overwriting AIX or perhaps dual > booting if possible. Debian may be of help ... start at http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ > I have a 44p model 170 (single 400Mhz power 3-11 > processor, 512Mb RAM, 18Gb d

RE: [Scottish] Linux on RS/6000

2003-04-01 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:43, Michael Cameron wrote: > > > >Feel free to drop me a note if I can help more. > > > Thanks. I was looking at probably just overwriting AIX or perhaps dual > booting if possible. I have a 44p model 170 (single 400Mhz power 3-11 > processor, 512Mb RAM, 18Gb disk, GXT130

RE: [Scottish] Linux on RS/6000

2003-04-01 Thread Michael Cameron
> >Feel free to drop me a note if I can help more. > Thanks. I was looking at probably just overwriting AIX or perhaps dual booting if possible. I have a 44p model 170 (single 400Mhz power 3-11 processor, 512Mb RAM, 18Gb disk, GXT130P graphics adaptor) which most of the time is switched off (sinc

RE: [Scottish] Linux on RS/6000

2003-04-01 Thread Elwell, AD (Andrew)
> Does anyone have any experience with this? Any tips or pointers most > welcome. Um, a little bit. We currently have a fairly large* system of p690's running aix 5L which means that you can run linux PPC binaries on it. (oh, and they're now called P-Series not RS/6000) Useful links include: h

[Scottish] Linux on RS/6000

2003-04-01 Thread Michael Cameron
Does anyone have any experience with this? Any tips or pointers most welcome. MC ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish