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Re: Debian modules



Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Sorry, a little bit late, but all of my mails send from Iran,
> Liban and Palesine went blocked/trashed by proxad.net.
> 
> Am 2006-06-26 00:38:22, schrieb Jim Popovitch:
>> Cute.
>>
>> Seriously now, why do all the Debian-ISP users need sound modules loaded 
> 
> Sorry, I must smile a little bit...  ;-)
> 
> Which ISP use a Mainboard with a Soundcard On-board in a Server?
> 

Don't entirely discount it. For example, if your motherboard doesn't
have a hardware RNG you could read soundcard noise to feed your entropy
pool.

The "lack of entropy problem" is frequently reported on headless
machines (servers), esp. on Linux 2.6 kernels..

-Matt Cuttler



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