On Wednesday, February 8, Felipe Scarel wrote: > > Just to explain better what happened, I was willing to install OpenBSD on > the machine even if it somewhat lost some power because of the SMP stuff. > However, my boss doesn't share the same views regarding security with me, > so I had no choice. Since this is a CS Department, it's rather impossible to > disagree with the people here when it comes to computers.
Bull. You can always disagree. Run on the system what is needed. If you need high-performance SMP, see what there is available that will give you the performance you need. Stick it behind a decent firewall. If this is to be a firewall... well, you makes your choices... --Toby.
