Re: what to do with an Itanium machine

"Champ Clark III [Quadrant]" <cclark-+wpoK1wU6vjIa13z/[email protected]>
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Shell server?  Testing network/services from a remote host..  Temporary storage of files..  Running screen + irssi so I can connect and remain connected to irc.freenode.net (#jaxlug),  SSH port forwarding..  Just to name a few..  I have several external shell sources that I use.   It can be quite nice to have something on a public network thats not your home machine.  

Anyways... just a thought. 

About the BSD/jailed option,  you can do something very similar with vserver/Linux.  It's basically a jailed env without emulation,  see http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org for
more information.  

Anyways,  just a thought. 



On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Chad Bailey wrote:

> 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 <herrold-lD49m8UYmPxWk0Htik3J/[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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