In case it wasn't obvious, I was actually kidding regarding the shell
comment. It would be nice, but I can think of many reasons not to do
it.

*puts on flame-retardant suit*

On the other hand, speaking of virtualization, good virtualization
would not be necessary with a properly set up BSD box with jailed
accounts.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:49 PM, R P Herrold <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Chad Bailey wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I'm sure that probably doesn't give you much to go off of.
>
>
>> ... virtual machines for various experiments
>
>
>> Oh, I got it! Create multiple VPS's for your fellow jaxlug members and
>> give them each a root shell of their own! :D hehehe
>
>
> sadly, virtualization on this orphaned architecture [not that Intel will
> admit it] is not maturing as quickly as on i386 / x86_64
>
> The LSB would use it as a donation [1] and be happy for it, but the cost of
> shopping (to the Oregon St Univ Open Source Lab) and feeding (paid for by
> others at OSUOSL) the beast power makes it had to justify.  Having a
> dedicated IA64 fpr the LSB would be a goodness
>
> -- Russ herrold
>
> [1]
> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2012-February/007058.html
>
>  'ia64 herrold has a spare unit in his DC, with a pair of boot
>        drives to alternate between'
>
>
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