Sunday, June 02, 2002

I started over with a Linux Kernel boot disk and installed only the packages that I wanted.  Took about 3 hours, but I had the Linux system that I needed.  With everything running it uses 12MB of RAM.  It now runs on a Pentium 90 (yep...Pentium 1) with 32MB of RAM.  It is my firewall, DHCP server, and my gateway to the internet.  All in under 15MB of RAM. [Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog] You can probably significantly cut down on the power consumption, noise, and heat if you use some non-hard disk to boot. That could mean a floppy that boots with support for a USB based device, like those cheap Compact Flash readers. Buy yourself a 32 or 64MB CF, a USB reader, and go. (Yes, Linux has support for USB-based hard disks, which is what the CF readers are considered). Just a thought. :) [The .NET Guy] - Reminds me of my Linksys Switch. It has a form of Linux, I believe, with web server, firewall, dhcp and various security measures all managed via an html interface 2:18:01 PM     Ok, this isn't the Linux of even a year ago. 20 minutes, done, installed. Freaking unbelievable. Detected everything, set up network. I almost jumped out of my seat when it detected "HP 420C" printer. Its done. On the network and everything. So does Radio run on Linux? [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] Indirectly... try Win4Lin or VMware. :) Actually, although I have Radio on my main box right now, for quite a while I was running it on a W2K server whose monitor was regularly "off", as it served as a file and web server primarily for us. I had to keep a user logged in, but eh, that's no biggie. I'm honestly darn close to paving my WinXP box for a Linux machine, and doing my .NET dev inside a VMware window... I just need something better than the "needs to be eradicated every three months because your registry is out of control or you installed some device driver that makes it unstable" world of Windows. Besides, my "next big open source project" (which ties into my "current big open source project", the Web Server) is to write a web-based blogging & new aggregation system in .NET (and, since I use Radio, I'll be sure to find a way to import Radio blogs). Probably by the time I'm done, Mono will be ready to run it... [The .NET Guy] Yes, I will be looking into Mono  more now. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog]   [ OK - I know why I might like a Linux box - primarily because MS needs some kind of competition. But tell me why you guys like one !] 2:08:07 PM     Internet.Com: "Security software maker Network Associates, Friday received a patent for storing metadata on a server."  [Scripting News] 1:31:02 PM

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