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Re: Hurd login box...



--- Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:05:35PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> Hello!
> 
> > I have just upgraded me server to dual PPro so
> > my old one, a 486 is sitting in storage. :)
> > 
> > Anyway, I just looked at
> > 
> > http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
> > 
> > and there seems to be no Debian/hurd boxes for
> 
> that'd be Debian GNU/Hurd
> 
> > developers. Would be an advantage to have
> > something like a 486 hurd box for developers?
> 
> very nice! do you intend it for general access or
> debian developer only?
> 
> > The specs on the box are:
> > 
> > 486DX2 66 [overclocked to 80]
> > 20MB RAM
> 
> uhm.. you'll need a lot of swap, i suggest 1GB to be safe. :)

 What do you plan on doing with 1GB of swap????  I have 512MB of ram and 
haven't touched swap space in months. 


> > I know, it's not much. But somewhat comparable
> > to the m68k machine :) [ignoring the ram part].
> 
> should be quite enough (for porting small packages at least)
> 
> thanks for the effort!
> 
> -- 
> Robert Millan
> 
> "5 years from now everyone will be running
> free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
> 
>               Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
> 
> 
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=====
James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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