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[NMLUG] Speaking of monitors...
Even if the monitors are only compatible w/ SG machines, you can always
install Linux on them, especially if you can pick them up cheap.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml is a list of MIPS
machines that Gentoo will run on.
Matt
On 9/25/06, Steve Browne <sbrowne@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> >On 9/25/06, Steve Browne <sbrowne@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> All I want for Christmas is an HP LP3065.
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:11:48 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Nice, but this would probably be enough for me:
> >http://digitaltigers.com/zenview-arena-ultrahd.shtml
>
> That just is probably a pastiche of second-rate monitors. The Apple
> Cinema 30" and the Dell 3007 are about to be superceded by newer 30"
> WQXGA monitors with multiple inputs.
>
> The question arises, what is a good (Linux) monitor for intensive
> graphical work? I recently screened ICE AGE off DVD, and noticed on
> the "behind-the-scenes" bonus disc that all the animation monitors are
> Silicon Graphics. First of all, I'd hate to be stuck using Irix and
> therefore dependent on SGI (Peter Jackson moved to Linux in
> mid-production on LOTR). Secondly, SGI has filed for Chapter 11
> bankruptcy, which doesn't mean they are out of business but I think
> animation is moving to open source OS. Maybe there will be a lot of
> surplus SGI monitors lying around, which would be nice assuming they
> are OS-independent.
>
> Meanwhile, HP should have the 30" LP3065 out in November; Samsung is
> about to release the 305T; the Dell model seems to be actually the
> Benq FP301W and maybe Benq will issue something newer. Japan has a
> budget Quixun QHDM30W, but they won't bring it here. This competition
> should help drop the price on 30" WQXGA monitors.
>
> Start clearing room on your desk.
>
> Steve
> Stephen B. Browne
> sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
> "Ubi bene, ibi patria."
>
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Matthew Bowie
Programmer/IT Consultant
niosop@gmail.com
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