[lug] [application] Debian-based Microship (fwd)

[Nate Duehr]

Bdale just never sleeps, methinks.

Stuff I know he's working on now:

- He's packaging up software to access the new Ham Radio satellite "Phase
  IIID" recently launched, for Debian-Hams

- He maintains the Debian BIND packages (almost always without breaking
  them!  GRIN)

- There's photos of him testing some of the circuit boards
  that are flying on P3D now are in the archives somewhere at
  www.amsat.org

- He also speaks regularly in the ham radio satellite community
  about the virtues of open-source software (they're a very tough crowd...
  much of the ground-station software is Windows-based and either
  shareware or commercial -- which usually means completely closed
  source).

- Hell, he speaks more than just in the sat community, but I'm sure I
  don't know all of the places he's spoken about Linux.  

God knows what other projects he has going, but he's always happy to
help someone out in the middle of all that with questions ... I last ran
into him wandering around the Colorado Linux Expo with his laptop helping 
folks load Debian.  

Nice guy, and I'm very proud that he's in the Colorado Linux community.

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:30:28PM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> Just thought everyone might like to see this, especially since Bdale floats
> 'round these (Colorado) parts.  :-)
> 
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> Debian-based Microship                                  press at debian.org
> December 4, 2000
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> 
> [ This post was written by "Steven K. Roberts" <wordy at microship.com>. 
>   And what do YOU use your Debian machine for? :]
> 
> Just thought I'd let you know that the Microship is Debian-based, 
> thanks largely to Bdale Garbee's excellent help with doing an install 
> on an Octagon PC-500 embedded industrial PC board that was our first 
> choice for the boatlet's big iron.  This board, still speaking 
> Debian, is now part of the WANDER wireless data collection system 
> we're spinning off for the NSF; we're currently evaluating the 
> power-management trade-offs of building our micro-trimaran systems 
> around the new Octagon PC-680 (with Tillamook CPU) or a suitable 
> laptop that is already optimized for miserly current consumption but 
> thinner on raw I/O and human-scale connectors.  In either case, we'll 
> add VMWARE for the off-the-shelf navigation apps, use Squeak and a 
> browser for the front end, and build all our real-time databases 
> (from about 50 streaming telemetry channels) in MySQL with various 
> Perl tools munging the data streams.  This machine sits atop a 
> diverse network of embedded devices, including audio, video, and 
> serial crossbar switches to allow random interconnections among 
> resources... and talks to the Net via Globalstar satellite phone and 
> packet radio.
> 
> Ongoing information about the project is at http://www.microship.com, 
> and we'll be hosting all our software development on Sourceforge.
> 
> Cheers from Camano Island, Washington!
> Steve
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven K. Roberts, N4RVE        Nomadic Research Labs
> New Microship Website:  	http://www.microship.com
> Current location:		Camano Island, Washington
> 
> Activities of the moment (updated 12/3/00 23:00):  New Microship 
> network drawing, console internals layout, and pondering a few 
> head-scratchers on core linux server power management...
> 
> Current photos are at http://www.microship.com/latestnews/images/images.html
> 
> -- 
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> The Graphics Muse           |  not your day.  Tomorrow's not looking good 
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org  |  either. -- Dilbert
> http://www.graphics-muse.com 
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