[techtalk] Progeny Debian

[Michelle Murrain]

At 12:05 PM -0500 6/1/01, Jeff Dike wrote:
>michelle at murrain.net said:
>>  As far as I'm  concerned, it's never possible to have too many
>>  computers. I mean,  how else are you going to: try new distros, learn
>>  about new hardware,  set up firewalls and DNS servers to test, track
>>  debian testing or  unstable, try a BSD, set up networked games...
>>  and...  (a project  I've been wanting to try for 6 months now, but
>>  haven't had near  enough time...)try to put together a BEOWULF CLUSTER
>>  to run  setiathome????
>
>User-mode Linux (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net)

I was really only half-serious.

I've heard tell about user-mode Linux - it sounds pretty interesting. 
I haven't yet tried it. Another possibility is VMWare. But neither 
will let you run a Beowulf cluster. :-)

Michelle
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