Well exotic? Melkus RS 2000
(http://www.melkus-sportwagen.de) Regards Philipp On Thu, 01 Sep 2011, Daniel Villarreal wrote: > Seeing and hearing that Lamborghini was a pleasant surprise. I'd also be > interested in checking out one of the Tesla motor cars. > > Daniel, what you think is a nice exotic sports car ? > > Me gusta tambiC)n discutir alimentaciC3n. > > So maybe OpenBSD isn't all flashy and gaudy like that Lamborghini, but then > I wasn't concentrating on that. > > Saludos, > Daniel Villarreal > > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Daniel Gracia < > lists.d...@electronicagracia.com> wrote: > > > You guys aren't serious, are you? > > > > Lambos are shiny and fast crap that gets on fire easily -almost the same > > for any italian car/bike out on the market; maybe not Fiat-. And that's > just > > the opposite OpenBSD seeks. > > > > VirtualBox solving a problem? Not in my world. > > > > El 01/09/2011 11:55, Tobias Crefeld escribiC3: > > > > Am Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:48:56 -0400 > >> schrieb Daniel Villarreal<yclwebmaster@gmail.**com<yclwebmas...@gmail.com> > >> >: > >> ... > >> > >>> > http://youcanlinux.wordpress.**com/my-thoughts-on-openbsd/<http://youcanlinux > .wordpress.com/my-thoughts-on-openbsd/> > >>> > >> [..] > >> > >>> through, Although one canb t convert a Ford car to a Lamborghini > >>> motorcar, you can transform your computer to a high-performance > >>> machine. > >>> > >> [..] > >> > >> ...your comparison works in another way as well: A Lamborghini is a car > >> like Jaguar, etc. that you never would use as your primary > >> transportation tool as every repair will take a unpredictable amount of > >> time at specialised garages that are 300 miles away. > >> > > > But OpenBSD is not needing special treatment. I'm using stable on several > computers, not wanting to get into using -current just yet. Should I infer > from your statements that -current is that unpredictable ? > > > > Your primary vehicle will be something that is reliable, commonly used > >> and well supported. Especially if you need it to make money with it. I > >> believe that one of the major disadvantages of OpenBSD is the lack of > >> installation support / guarantee by hardware suppliers. This could > >> smash your whole roll-out timetable, so our "multi purpose trucks" > >> will always run an Enterprise Linux. > >> > > > So just do research on the internet. Granted, it may not be possible to use > a given operating system on the latest hardware, but then people and > corporations (legally persons as well, in U.S. jurisprudence) should > contribute hardware to the developers for testing. Imagine what you could do > with OpenBSD on an HP n90, hmm. Yeah, old hardware, but still. > > > > > But no doubt: Some applications like packet filtering / manipulation, > >> ALG or routing run pretty smart on OpenBSD. Meanwhile we circumvent > >> the problems caused by the lack of hardware supplier's support by > >> abstracting hardware dependencies with the help of virtualizing > >> platforms like VirtualBox (offering some OpenBSD-templates) or ProxMox > >> (KVM / "Other"). > >> > >> Regards, > >> Tobias. > >> > > > I don't like virtualization from a technical standpoint, if I have the > resources to run natively. I only recently started using Virtualbox on my > family's computer for testing purposes. That computer needs to be ready at > all times. Does it work ? Yes, it's even speedier than I expected. I'd > rather have a rack in my computing area with dedicated hardware. For the > time being, I just use a bunch of hard drives, a mix of IDE and SATA. The > only thing is, this core2 system isn't capable of hot-swapping, at least > that wasn't on the list of features. I'm not anxious to test that feature at > this time. I don't want to take a chance on breaking it again. > > MfG, > Daniel > -- "When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen." -- Richard Nixon as a boy (on the Teapot Dome scandal) ================================================================================ () asccii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ================================================================================
