<html><head></head><body>Hi all. I also have an Asus Ultra book I have been dying to have *BSD running on it and could use help installing. I can bring media and would be happy to buy drinks and food all around if we could get Free or Open installed on my UX32VD. thanks.<br>
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Assaf<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">George Rosamond <george@ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">James E Keenan:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Friends,<br /><br />Several months ago I was given a brand new Asus Ultrabook, 2 cores,<br />running on Intel Core i3-32-3217U running Windows 8.<br /><br />I'm not a Windows hater. I used it on $jobs up until 2006 and on my<br />personal desktop until 2004. But this version of Windows is so<br />different from what I used to use that I'm not strongly motivated to use<br />this machine, accept perhaps for when I need Microsoft Word. (For the<br />record, I'm not enamored of the iOS-ization of Mac in 10.6+, either.<br />Give me a comfortable keyboard, a mouse and a Unix command-line, and I'm<br />happy.)<br /><br />Last night I wiped the dust off the Asus -- literally. The thought<br />occurred to me: Could I make this a dual-boot machine, with a *nix<br />system on the other side? Hmm, I ran Windows98 and RedHat 7.3 on
my old<br />desktop for several years a decade ago. I'm familiar with Ubuntu, which<br />I used as my desktop at a $job for six years. (And I've run Debian on<br />my Linode since 2005, though that's not a desktop.)<br /><br />Having attended NYCBUG since 2005 or so, I've noticed that very few<br />presenters at either the monthly meetings or the Cons run a non-Apple<br />BSD on their laptops. At the 2010 Con there were more presenters<br />running Windows than PC-BSD.<br /><br />Brian Callahan's presentation at NYCBUG this week suggested that it<br />might be viable to run OpenBSD, at least, on a laptop. I'm at a point<br />where I need a more powerful, Unix-based laptop for my<br />home/open-source-development use, so I'm motivated to explore options.<br />I'm wondering if there is anyone in the NYC vicinity who could help me<br />do this. I know that I'm unlikely to embark on this sitting at home by<br />myself, so I'm definitely willing to bring this Asus to wherever
someone<br />who could help me lives or works. And I'm very willing to compensate<br />someone for this in beer, food, cash or perhaps a contribution to an<br />appropriate BSD foundation. (If I don't do this, eventually I'll break<br />down and buy a new Mac, but I'm sure the foundation or anyone on this<br />list can use that $$ more than Apple.)<br /><br />Assuming I do get a BSD up and running, there will be beneficial<br />results. I will use it to run smoke tests of Perl and Perl libraries on<br />that BSD. Those smoke tests will be publicly posted, raising that BSD's<br />visibility in the Perl community. I periodically make presentations at<br />Perl user groups (like New York Perlmongers) and conferences; if people<br />at those meetings saw me booting up a non-Apple BSD, they'd say, "Cool!<br />What's that?" And, who knows -- I might eventually be able to make a<br />software contribution back to the BSD I'm running.<br /><br />So, if you'd like to offer me some
in-person help with this, please<br />contact me off-list. (You're free to kibbitz on-list as much as you<br />want. I know you'll do that anyway. ;-) ) Getting this done before the<br />Feb 08 Con would be a definite plus.</blockquote><br />Well, at some point in the next week or two, I'll be registering people<br />for the con, most likely at Suspenders in the evening.<br /><br />You bring the appropriate install media, and I'm sure someone, such as<br />myself, can help you out.<br /><br />And if more people are interested, we can make it an impromptu installfest.<br /><br />Before then, it might be useful to boot it off *some* BSD and upload the<br />dmesg to dmesgd so we have an idea of the relevant chipsets.<br /><br />g<br /><hr /><br />talk mailing list<br />talk@lists.nycbug.org<br /><a href="http://www.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk">http://www.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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