Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-16 Thread Kysh Dragon
> > Kachina Technologies is strongly interested in Debian Sparc for the > > hardware they distribute. They are offering resources for this effort with > > the goal being a "commercial" grade Debian distribution. Hi. I know this isn't the time, place, method or means, but please allow me to introdu

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Kachina Technologies is willing to provide hardware resources and any > other help we might need to make this project a reality. They have even > offered heavily discounted (50%) prices on development machines for > "selected" developers. What sort of m

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread James A . Treacy
> > What do people think of creating a new ftp directory called say, > > "sci"? Many of the packages in Scientific Applications for Linux > > don't fit cleanly into "math". > > > > I would leave it the way it is. "Scientific" is not well defined. To a > certain extent it's not defined at all.

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread G John Lapeyre
To the extent that I have a goal in Debian , its packaging these things (I've already done three or four) . For the time being, I am putting it all in 'math'. We may want to change the name or granularity at some point, if packging these things really takes off. I agree that 'sci' would b

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Johnie! > > Some SAL classifications include chemistry, biology, artificial > intelligence, physics, astronomy, relational DBMS, parallel computing, > geographic information systems, and scientific data processing and > visualization, some of which are poorly described by "math". > Agreed.

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Alexander" == Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexander> I would leave it the way it is. "Scientific" is not well Alexander> defined. To a certain extent it's not defined at all. Some SAL classifications include chemistry, biology, artificial intelligence, physics, astronomy

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 04:07:11PM -0400, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > > > What do people think of creating a new ftp directory called say, > > "sci"? Many of the packages in Scientific Applications for Linux > > don't fit cleanly into "math". > > > > I would leave it the way it is.

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > > What do people think of creating a new ftp directory called say, > "sci"? Many of the packages in Scientific Applications for Linux > don't fit cleanly into "math". > I would leave it the way it is. "Scientific" is not well defined. To a certain extent it's not defined at all. Sasha

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Alexander" == Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexander> So perhaps if you are going to work with them you could let Alexander> them know about Packages in Debian and they may want to Alexander> update there Web Page. I know that many of my colleagues Alexander> use this page

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > > Kachina Technologies is strongly interested in Debian Sparc for the > hardware they distribute. They are offering resources for this effort with > the goal being a "commercial" grade Debian distribution. > I have a little comment which is not quite you were asking for. But perhaps it

Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
I don't know how many of you saw the posting Nils made to debian-announce a while back, so I will give some background: Kachina Technologies is strongly interested in Debian Sparc for the hardware they distribute. They are offering resources for this effort with the goal being a "commercial" grade