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Re: Installing MkLinux on a Performa 6214 (was "MkLinux Installation")

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Daniel Parks wrote:

> My school has a bunch of Classics and SE/30s lying around (No
> Q840AVs, though. They have DSPs!)... I was trying to figure out how I
> could make them into a cluster. I guess I could hook up all the
> serial ports (each have two, modem and printer) and then run PPP...
> but then I would use all of my clock cycles on PPP. Oh well.

Grab cheap NuBus network cards. Either that or put them all on the same
SCSI bus and hack the hardware so that they aren't all ID 7. Heheheh.
BTW, ppp isn't all that bad. My little quadra 650 does pppoe and it still
has some horsepower to space. Of course, doing it for two links might be
kind of tough. You might have to do them in groups of three with one
machine just being a dumb router to ethernet for the other two or
something.


> Actually, I've been working on a program that might be run on a
> Beowulf cluster if I ever get it finished... unfortunately it
> involves Fortran... unfortunately the largest problem I want to solve
> with it will still take a couple hundred years to complete on the 500
> machine Beowulf cluster at the local university. (-;

Gack.


> >I bet the Apple IT folks scratch their heads a bit when they see an
> >MkLinux box on the network. Anybody know where I can get a Mac OS X
> >themed windowing manager for it, just to frighten people?
>
> Sawfish, WindowMaker, KDE... all support themes. You can find Aqua
> themes on themes.org... then you can get an Aqua theme for GTK... I
> did this for a while in Darwin until I wiped my disk and installed OS
> X.

heheh. Well, the point was a 7100 looking like Mac OS X could give people
a really eerie feeling about my long-term goals.... :-)


David

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