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<TITLE>The Future of Linux: Door Prizes and Demos</TITLE>
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<H1 ALIGN="center"> The Future of Linux </H1>
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<H3 ALIGN="center"> 14 July 1998 </H3>
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<H3> Door Prizes </H3>
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Due to the problems with registering, the door prizes were handed out on the
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basis of birthdays instead of tickets. They included quite a number of copies
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of Red Hat, not only for Intel but also for Alpha and SPARC, some red hats,
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possibly some t-shirts and at least one boxed, stainless steel mug with an
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Intel logo on it. In addition, there were free VA Research t-shirts and
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copies of the July 1998 issue of <I>Linux Journal</I> for (almost) everyone,
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and Intel was busy handing out Bunny People key chains in the demo area.
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<H3> Demos </H3>
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<A HREF="http://www.varesearch.com/">VA Research</A> had a number of
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lust-inducing machines on display, all running
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Linux and a host of interesting window managers and applications (including
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/quake2/official/unix/">Quake II</A>,
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the <A HREF="http://www.povray.org/">Persistance of Vision ray-tracer</A>
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(POV-Ray), <A HREF="http://www.gimp.org/">the GIMP</A>, a <A HREF=
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"ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.1/">Linux kernel</A> compile,
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<A HREF="http://lore.ece.utexas.edu/~bgrayson/xosview.html">SMP-aware
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xosview</A>, some image viewers, possibly Rasterman's <A HREF=
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"http://www.enlightenment.org/">Enlightenment GUI</A>, etc.). All of the
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machines were running 400 MHz Pentium IIs; the Xeons each had 1 MB
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of onboard L2 cache (per chip, that is) running at full (400 MHz) system
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speed.
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.varesearch.com/products/vy.html"><B>VArStation
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YMP</B></A>: a dual Xeon-400 with a Symbios Ultra2 SCSI subsystem
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.varesearch.com/products/vs1000.html"><B>VArServer
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1000</B></A>: a dual PII-400 with the 440BX chipset, 512 MB of
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RAM and 5 hot-swappable SCSI disks
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.varesearch.com/products/vs4100.html"><B>VArServer
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4100</B></A>: a quad Xeon-400 with 1 GB of RAM, a Mylex
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DAC960PJ RAID controller, 10 (12?) 9 GB Quantum Atlas III SCSI
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disks, and a $43,750 price tag, according to the web page
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.varesearch.com/products/vs28.html"><B>VArStation
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28</B></A>: a PII-400 with the 440BX chipset, 256 MB of RAM, a
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16 MB Matrox Millenium II and a 4 MB(?) Diamond Monster 3D
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(3Dfx Voodoo) running Mesa for accelerated OpenGL support and Quake II
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at 640x480 at a high frame rate (apparently the 3D card was incapable
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of higher resolution, even though Quake's settings screen claimed
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it was running at 1280x1024)
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<I>Last modified 20 July 1998 by
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<A HREF="mailto:newt@pobox.com">newt@pobox.com</A> , you betcha.</I>
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