This is something I started almost 3 years ago with Airinter.net The wireless is quite robust (30 mile range with up to 512k frequency hopping spread spectrum). It was designed for the military and runs off 12volt DC. The equipment isn't very cheap, but works well for a metropolitan WAN.
the routers are embedded linux systems running all off a boot e-prom and loading OS over wireless, keeping the rest in cache/ram.
The south-east where I was starting this wasn't quite ready for it, so the company is gone now and I'm in San Francisco. However if anyone is serious about doing something with wireless & linux please feel free to get in touch with me and I'll pass you onto the vendors.
btw the linux router is something you have to assemble yourself. So get your eprom burners out & figure out how to get a NFS mount via serial connection and boot kernel only!:)
For those who say "bring it on" keep in mind that they aren't just hiring people for their skills in the OS to implement a Microsoft version. They are looking to get all of what we have come to love working in their Windows OS! So, instead of saying bring it on, don't worry they will. Lets just be sure we do the same and implement all of what people love about windows into linux. Pick up your debugger & get writing!
I saw this @ a friends house a year and a half ago. The most outragous movie I'd seen in a while. I haven't seen the site yet, but I hope he has included some of the history in it's creation.
This is my problem! A previous employer had 90,000 users on an exchange system. It worked great (with much support costs) for them. However what the opensource people have forgotten is that what an office needs is more than e-mail. It is also the ability to share schedules, contacts, etc with your co-workers. Until that is available offices will be stuck having to deploy exchange.
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>>sadly BSD's are not currently in the position to threat NT's dominance... The real sad thing is that MS is already a heavy BSD user with Link Exchange, and people like Yahoo depend on Free BSD to make their operations not only cost effective, but runable & stable!
They were talking about "strong" encryption. Not the standard pgp type stuff. But where you HAVE to have it encrypted, new seeds for every character and all type stuff...
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the routers are embedded linux systems running all off a boot e-prom and loading OS over wireless, keeping the rest in cache/ram.
The south-east where I was starting this wasn't quite ready for it, so the company is gone now and I'm in San Francisco. However if anyone is serious about doing something with wireless & linux please feel free to get in touch with me and I'll pass you onto the vendors.
btw the linux router is something you have to assemble yourself. So get your eprom burners out & figure out how to get a NFS mount via serial connection and boot kernel only! :)
For those who say "bring it on" keep in mind that they aren't just hiring people for their skills in the OS to implement a Microsoft version. They are looking to get all of what we have come to love working in their Windows OS! So, instead of saying bring it on, don't worry they will. Lets just be sure we do the same and implement all of what people love about windows into linux. Pick up your debugger & get writing!
I saw this @ a friends house a year and a half ago. The most outragous movie I'd seen in a while. I haven't seen the site yet, but I hope he has included some of the history in it's creation.
This is my problem! A previous employer had 90,000 users on an exchange system. It worked great (with much support costs) for them. However what the opensource people have forgotten is that what an office needs is more than e-mail. It is also the ability to share schedules, contacts, etc with your co-workers. Until that is available offices will be stuck having to deploy exchange.
>>sadly BSD's are not currently in the position to threat NT's dominance... The real sad thing is that MS is already a heavy BSD user with Link Exchange, and people like Yahoo
depend on Free BSD to make their operations not only cost effective, but runable & stable!
They were talking about "strong" encryption. Not the standard pgp type stuff. But where you HAVE to have it encrypted, new seeds for every character and all type stuff...