Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Friday, June 02, 2023 11:34:58 AM Mario Marietto wrote:
> Excuse me,but there is something within your argumentation that I don't
> like and I want to express what it is. Let's take Linux as an example of
> what I want to say. Linux is well known to be an OS that can be installed
> on the old machines,helping the people that can't buy a new computer to
> surf the net and to do the basic things that they couldn't do using a more
> complete and modern PC built with new hardware components. And this is a
> linux quality that everyone loves and one of the reasons why Linux is
> growing faster on the market.  I think that everyone likes this,right ?
> So,why the same logic can't be applied to those software tools that go in
> the same direction,to those tools that help the users to have those
> functions that those old computers cannot give to them anymore ? Here it
> seems there is a contradiction. You may argue that developing for a small
> number of old computers isn't worth trying. But,first of all,I think that
> there are a LOT of old PCs in the world,since poor people aren't only a
> niche. We could discuss,anyway, how to reach the right amount of money to
> pay the developers. I'm thinking of opening a crowdfunding campaign for
> example. Or any other method to have the money that I can't imagine now. To
> do a project like this is socially accepted and helps to work on the
> perception of the users that computer science is something that they can
> use to develop their life in a good way. Maybe by helping one of those poor
> children,we are contributing to educate someone that in the future will
> make great things for humanity. I think that using the old relation that
> there is between costs and benefits is not applicable in every kind of
> situation. There are already a lot of people who work on projects that they
> like,but that they have a low social impact. Why not to work on a project
> that aims to extend the functions of an old PC. And what's better than
> using two operating systems on a single old pc? My old pc has 2 measly
> cpu's, I used one for the host and the other for linux emulated with bhyve
> and the performance was decent. Is there something that's more useful and
> generous than this kind of project ?

Creating a new acronym / proof reading mark:

nws;dr (no white space, didn't read)

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