On Thursday 23 August 2007 18:02, John Carter wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Derek Smithies wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, John Carter wrote: > >> What is needed is a "If you have this situation, use one of these" > >> guide. > > > > Absolutely correct. > > > > So what are the situations? > > Old / low spec box to act as... > * thin client. > * router / firewall > > > Secure distro to act as webserver. (At this point someone will start > muttering about little red daemons....bring it on!) > > "Dark room" server distro. > > Embedded distros. > > Kiddies "toy" box. > > LiveCD's (Knoppix mempis...) > > Programmer's Dream distro. > > Distro for Granny. (Easy to use, can't get stuffed up) > > Kiosk distro. > > Distro for me old Dad. (Tell him it's Vista, it looks like just like > Windows, it works like Windows, just better, it's lock down so the old dear > can't stuff it up, it's free...) > > > Domain specific distro (scientist, astronomy, mathematician, GIS, ...)
I could use a few scientific distros. I'm wondering what it would take to get some moderately well-heeled individual to finance a PS2 or PS3 Beowulf, http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/ http://itrain.org/itinfo/2003/it030528.html http://www.physorg.com/news92674403.html to undertake such mundane matters as data mining for smaller businesses, clarifying when - exactly when - the next big power shortage/blowout is going to be, playing silly-buggers with history and geography for a film I'm wanting to write (what precisely would a French South Island look like, if Akaroa was the major South Island city and Christchurch an almost-ran a la Akaroa is in this timeline? :), etc, ad infinitum ... dreams are free, about the only things that are these days ... ;) And a good solid science toolbox is rather important for even dreaming ... ;) Oh, yes, I was forgetting, a good toolbox of multimedia tools ... > > Sysadmin's dream distro > > Control Freak's Dream Distro (hmm, isn't that the same as the one above! > :-)) > > Ruby xor Perl xor Python xor ... programmers dream distro (all the > sysadmin scripts written in scripting language of choice instead of @%$#%$! > ancient arcane sh) > > Any other ideas? > > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
