Linux User Group of Mauritius » logan http://lugm.org Promoting open source software in our beautiful island Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:44:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Recommended hardware http://lugm.org/2012/01/25/recommended-hardware/ http://lugm.org/2012/01/25/recommended-hardware/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:40:59 +0000 logan http://lugm.org/?p=642 Here's a useful list of chipsets (found on motherboards) that are documented. Since it's documented, it's easy to add support for them & the drivers are less buggy.

If you really care about Open Source, contact the company & ask for hardware documentation/datasheets. We don't want source code: we want freely available specs.

(Signing an NDA is not an option, we also want to share what we know to other groups out there: *BSD, Linux, Haiku, Minix3 and many other groups in pure open source spirit)

Intel:

ICH7

ICH8 mobile

ICH9

ICH10


CMD/Silicon Image


CMD 648

CMD 649

SiI 680


Promise:


PDC20579




PDC40775

ATI:

IXP700/800 SATA


Ethernet:

Realtek

Intel (complex and buggy)




Wifi:

Ralink

Realtek (older chipsets like 8187)


Video Adapters:

Intel

ATI


Soundcards:

Realtek


(Still a work-in-progress)
]]> http://lugm.org/2012/01/25/recommended-hardware/feed/ 0 IRC Meeting on Saturday http://lugm.org/2011/06/16/irc-meeting-on-saturday/ http://lugm.org/2011/06/16/irc-meeting-on-saturday/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:04:37 +0000 logan http://lugm.org/?p=557 An IRC meeting is scheduled on 18th of June at 11:00 am

The channel is #linux.mu on irc.freenode.net. As usual it's Open to the public. We will be discussing the upcoming Free & Open Source Conference help on the 22nd of this month at UoM.

//Logan

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April Meeting: high performance web server (Logan)

July Meeting: The Future of Computers in Education (Dr Stefan Brandle) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

August Meeting: Wireless Security (Logan)

October Meeting: Silent and cheap firewall (Logan)

Novermber Meeting: DTT Receiver (Shaan) -- Link not available

December Meeting: Shell Scripting Tips (logan)

Other presentations will be uploaded as soon as possible,

please be patient.

Also, bear in mind that the PDF files contain very basic

information. A lot more is discussed during the meetings.

In other words, attending meetings brings a lot more !

//Logan

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