Gentoo. You can have have it install only what you need (bash, ssh, samba, maybe webmin, or whatever), and every few days ssh into it and run "emerge world". to get the updated packages.
First off, it's a reply to the question "Does it run linux?" (Re: But) Second, you can tell by, oh, I don't know, clicking on my username to know how long I've been posting, which isn't accurate anyway because I've been reading/. for years but never bothered to give my opinion on things to people that don't matter.
And, on the off chance that the person asking the question was being sarcastic, the sarcasm must have been lost in his 4 word post.
Here's a clue, Sherlock: no one cares.
And I for one wouldn't mind not having some elitist-dork pounce one everyone who has a typo or slight spelling mistake.
"Serenity Virtual Station has support for the broadest set of operating systems in the industry. Supported host including Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and IBM OS/2 - eComStation. Guest operating sytems support includes Linux, Windows, and IBM OS/2 - eComStation."
USFirst has become quite sad. If a team doesn't have money, they can't do squat. I'm not talking just not being able to build a robot that doesn't break after some well-engineered (pun inteneded) robot smashes into it and breaks it, but all the other stuff that FIRST claims to be about: learning from engineers, getting out into the community, all that other crap, you can't do without money. We couldn't even get engineers this year, so our robot was entirely student built, and we actually got penalized for that. Sure, there are a lot of teams that have a high student involvement, but then, at least at the regionals I've been to, if you talk to a random student on some of the teams that are really good, they don't know anything about their robot.
But, that said, FIRST really isn't about winning a competition. At any given time during the competitions, you could ask just about anyone from any team to help you and they would. It's really friendly. And the kids like it, and they usually learn a lot, even without engineers or money. But I think it teaches the most important lesson of all: money makes the world go around.
Oh yeah, and the average budget for the richer end of the spectrum is $60,000 to $100,000. The poor teams (read: non-sponsored teams) usually raise about $7000, and $5000 of that goes to the kit.
Further, most classes don't even require/use a laptop (it's pretty tough to take linear algebra notes on a computer). I estimate that maybe only 20% of classes or less use laptops actually IN class.
Everyone at my school is required to have one, and none of the teachers use them, or if they do it's for one lecture a semester or some trivial matter. Many don't allow students to use them at all in class.
Here at Ball State they recently set one up, except you can't get to it unless you're near a window in many of the buildings. And everyone uses it to play games in the classes they have to attend.
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Gentoo. You can have have it install only what you need (bash, ssh, samba, maybe webmin, or whatever), and every few days ssh into it and run "emerge world". to get the updated packages.
... road fork you" I will admit to my hoeing and hang my head in shame.
First off, it's a reply to the question "Does it run linux?" (Re: But) Second, you can tell by, oh, I don't know, clicking on my username to know how long I've been posting, which isn't accurate anyway because I've been reading /. for years but never bothered to give my opinion on things to people that don't matter.
And, on the off chance that the person asking the question was being sarcastic, the sarcasm must have been lost in his 4 word post.
Here's a clue, Sherlock: no one cares. And I for one wouldn't mind not having some elitist-dork pounce one everyone who has a typo or slight spelling mistake.
"Serenity Virtual Station has support for the broadest set of operating systems in the industry. Supported host including Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and IBM OS/2 - eComStation. Guest operating sytems support includes Linux, Windows, and IBM OS/2 - eComStation."
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USFirst has become quite sad. If a team doesn't have money, they can't do squat. I'm not talking just not being able to build a robot that doesn't break after some well-engineered (pun inteneded) robot smashes into it and breaks it, but all the other stuff that FIRST claims to be about: learning from engineers, getting out into the community, all that other crap, you can't do without money. We couldn't even get engineers this year, so our robot was entirely student built, and we actually got penalized for that. Sure, there are a lot of teams that have a high student involvement, but then, at least at the regionals I've been to, if you talk to a random student on some of the teams that are really good, they don't know anything about their robot.
But, that said, FIRST really isn't about winning a competition. At any given time during the competitions, you could ask just about anyone from any team to help you and they would. It's really friendly. And the kids like it, and they usually learn a lot, even without engineers or money. But I think it teaches the most important lesson of all: money makes the world go around.
Oh yeah, and the average budget for the richer end of the spectrum is $60,000 to $100,000. The poor teams (read: non-sponsored teams) usually raise about $7000, and $5000 of that goes to the kit.
Further, most classes don't even require/use a laptop (it's pretty tough to take linear algebra notes on a computer). I estimate that maybe only 20% of classes or less use laptops actually IN class. Everyone at my school is required to have one, and none of the teachers use them, or if they do it's for one lecture a semester or some trivial matter. Many don't allow students to use them at all in class.
Here at Ball State they recently set one up, except you can't get to it unless you're near a window in many of the buildings. And everyone uses it to play games in the classes they have to attend.