[AG-TECH] RE: AG Packaging Effort

[Randy Groves]

I would like to extend Gregor's request.  I've looked through the web site 
extensively (but maybe not exhaustively), and do not see a list of 'specs' 
for a lot of the support equipment such as video capture cards, projectors, 
and sound cards.  There are suggestions of models that have worked, but I 
do not see - at least collected in one place - a discussion of what it was 
about the suggested model that made it a fit.  What specs were essential on 
the suggested models?  Were they picked because drivers existed for 
Linux?  What physical I/O connections are essential?  I find that several 
of the suggestions are hard to get, and/or have been replaced by newer 
models, and lacking the required specs, it makes it difficult to determine 
if an available model will suffice.  I have read the Hardware Spec 
document, and does contain good specs for the computing requirements, but 
it is lacking on the other specs.

I realize that there may be a bit of experimentation required in all this, 
and I also realized that I may have missed the information somewhere on the 
site.  So if someone can point out my ignorance that's fine by me.

-randy

At 09:14 AM 4/24/2001 -0500, Gregor von Laszewski wrote:
>Dear All:
>
>         would it be possible to get a precise "small" list of features of a
>mandatory Linux machine that is part of an access grid node. E.g. which os
>version, ....,
>
>         Or is there a great deal of flexibility on these machines?
>
>Thanks
>
>Gregor
>
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