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On 11/3/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you're going to be trying things, try one of the BSD systems.
Solaris 10 (update 10 or OpenSolaris so you get ZFS)
Hmmm. I've used OpenBSD and FreeBSD before -- never se
On 11/4/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On 11/3/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're going to be trying things, try one of the BSD systems.
> Solaris 10 (update 10 or OpenSolaris so you get ZFS)
Th
On 11/4/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PF is excellent and I wish Linux would adopt it. It has been ported to FreeBSD
and
NetBSD FWIW.
At this point, the Linux firewall subsystem has gone through three
major rewrites, and people still say pf is better. I have to start
suspecting
On 11/5/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/4/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PF is excellent and I wish Linux would adopt it. It has been ported to
FreeBSD and
> NetBSD FWIW.
At this point, the Linux firewall subsystem has gone through three
major rewrites, and people
On 11/5/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been using VMware server for playing with OSes. Solaris works well ...
Hmmm, that's a good thought. I went to all the trouble of setting
up the nifty multi-boot system, and I think it's blinded me. I keep
ignoring virtualization. Hamm
On 11/5/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/5/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been using VMware server for playing with OSes. Solaris works well ...
Hmmm, that's a good thought. I went to all the trouble of setting
up the nifty multi-boot system, and I think it's
On 11/5/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Who wants a
half-height, 18 GB SCSI drive, these days?
Someone who runs older hardware at home
Yah, I used to do that, too. But when you can get a PATA disk
that's two orders of magnitude larger in capacity, half the size
physically, a quart
On 11/5/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/5/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Who wants a
>> half-height, 18 GB SCSI drive, these days?
>
> Someone who runs older hardware at home
Yah, I used to do that, too. But when you can get a PATA disk
that's two orders of magnit
