Today, we’re going to walk through the process of building an unattended install server using network services. We configure these services on dedicated machine (a server), and we boot the endpoint (target) machines using network boot capable hardware — no removable media mastering need be involved. In cases where we’ve been able to deploy a […]
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One of the technical challenges at Partimus is configuring software for the myriad donated hardware we receive. For several years now, we’ve used Lubuntu — a lightweight variant of Ubuntu Linux — as our primary desktop operating system. Ubuntu, and its variants, are fairly easy to install and configure directly from the distributed CD. However, […]
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In March of 2007 Partimus was officially acknowledged as 501(c)(3) Organization for our educational work. To celebrate, we thought we’d take a look back over the past ten years, to see how we’ve grown and changed as an organization. As we were working on incorporation in 2006, our efforts began quite broadly. We shipped five […]
Back in October, Christian Einfeldt interviewed Liz Pocock, the Director of Housing Development and Asset Management at Episcopal Community Services (ECS) about her work in low-income housing facilities and how the residents had been using our Linux-based computers in the first residence we deployed in, The Crosby. Over the winter, I spent some time debugging […]
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Monday, November 23, 2015
You’ve heard of “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday”. Now here comes “Giving Tuesday“, an effort to formally kick off the season of giving. Giving Tuesday was started by a New York City community organization called 92Y, which is an educational organization on 92nd Street and Lexington Street in New York City. We at Partimus focus […]
Partimus has recently installed and is now supporting GNU-Linux computers in a low-income housing residence in San Francisco called The Crosby. Located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, The Crosby is run by the Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco (ECS) which provides about half of the adult shelter beds in San Francisco, according to its […]
As we previously blogged about, J. David Eisenberg has donated 15 good computers (with monitors, mice and keyboards) to Partimus, and since the time of that March 27 blog, we have been replacing old machines with David’s newer machines. It has been slow, steady progress. On April 17, David came back to the Ascend school, […]
Yesterday was what you would call a good day. I met Jim Stockford in the morning at 8:00 am in San Francisco, and he drove us from San Francisco down to San Jose to meet David Eisenberg, a local college professor, to pick up some computers that David had in storage. Fifteen computers, to be […]
Partimus was founded by two women, Cathy Malmrose and Maile Urbancic, and ever since, supporting women in STEM has been an important priority for Partimus. So we are re-posting this email to help spread the word about upcoming coding opportunties for women and girls. First is Girls Who Code. If you know a girl who […]
As previously mentioned on this Partimus blog, Eric P. Scott, a frequent Partimus volunteer, recently departed this life. Here is another photo of Eric that has been circulating recently on Linux email lists: A celebration of Eric’s life will be held on March 18 at 7:30 pm at one of his favorite pizza restaurants, Pascquales […]