[nylug-talk] Linux and small operating areas

[Gregg Levine]

On Dec 5, 2007 5:27 PM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
> No worries. Remind us all what you are trying to do here. (The subject is
> not explicit enough).
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2007 5:13 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> > Yes all of you saw the subject correctly. Right now I am endeavoring
> > to assemble a system to talk to hardware via a parallel port. (Printer
> > port at the moment.) Currently the intended kernel is one of the 2.2.x
> > series ones.
> >
> > If this works, and by the end of the winter looks to be a working
> > idea, then it might become a Spring candidate for the NYLUG session on
> > that month's turnout.
> >
> > My only problem is that of getting my chosen distribution to install
> > itself properly and actually want to work there.
> >
> > Unfortunately Brian my idea to do the same with Open Solaris has
> > chosen to be a non-starter. It looks as if I can't at the moment find
> > hardware who's interested.
> > --
> > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> > "This signature was once found posting rude
> >  messages in English in the Moscow subway."
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> - Brian Gupta
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/

Hello!
Well it was chosen for someone to ask that very same question.

Not so long ago, I bought a book on Linux and robotics. Its purpose
was to help me sort out how to apply the methods behind how Linux does
its thing on computer hardware to the outside world, that is
controlling other external logic. Part of that problem is that the
ability to have Linux manage a robot, is still covered in scarce
information. (There's not much out there!)

In this case it would be a deliberately chosen older release of
Slackware Linux running on a laptop and managing this hardware via its
parallel port.

-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
 messages in English in the Moscow subway."