Re: new Owl

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 02:25:24PM +0300, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2016-08-25 05:38:56 +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> 
>  > We'll need to decide on whether and what to do with Owl next,
>  > beside the prolonged life support. One possibility is turning
>  > it into a smaller (and safer?) OpenVZ 7 hosting platform than
>  > OpenVZ project's own VzLinux is (which is based on RHEL7,
>  > inheriting the bloat), but nothing is certain yet.
> 
> That's how I use it.
> 
> Besides being the virtualization host, Owl perfectly fits for small
> services normally running in a VDS (for me, that's only OpenVPN)
> or in VPS 

Colleagues, could you pay attention to another possible task Owl perfectly
fits, namely a router/NAT box, primarily for SOHO environment?

I actually used Owl as a router for approx. 12 years (well, there was a P1
box with two ethernets running Owl).  I decided to retire that box when I
actually realized that it consumes a notable amount of electricity running
24*7, generating a lot of noise with all these coolers, and a tiny
Raspberry Pi will do exactly the same at almost no electricity cost and
with no noise at all.  I would continue using Owl for that purpose but I
failed at my attempts to build it for Raspberry, so my RasPi now runs
Raspbian.

From the other hand, there are some (actually, many) devices that are able
to run OpenWRT; I think Owl, if it existed for these devices, could be
better option than OpenWRT.  Furthermore, I wouln't be too surprized to see
quagga being included into Owl or at least being available as a package,
making Owl PC a good cheap replacement for a Cisco router :-)


--
Croco