Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Bar Dov
Ira, kudus on the new system. It seems you're bored shitless to hack around with all this virtualization, right? Dan On 4/1/07, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the last few years I spent very little on hardware, so now I took a big jump and upgraded my lowly P3 old Linux server into

Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Tue, 03 Apr: i say a hack because it doesn't come out of the box, and it needs more then installing a .deb or .rpm usually a half-baked sh script ... My current desktop at work is a 64-bit AMD Athlon running Debian Etch with a 64-bit kernel

Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/04/07, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Tue, 03 Apr: i say a hack because it doesn't come out of the box, and it needs more then installing a .deb or .rpm usually a half-baked sh script ... My current desktop at work is a 64-bit AMD Athlon

Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-04 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On 4/4/07, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the flash player is statically compiled and runs outside the weasel process' context (which I'm pretty sure it's not, but I never checked) There's something called nspluginwrapper[1], which allows moving plugins out of the browser process

Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-02 Thread Erez D
afaik the 64 bit version is faster, however there are many programs which are not fully supported under 64 bit for example flash player, some codecs (windows codecs ?) the solution is usually a hack to install firefox, mplayer and codecs in their 32 bit version i say a hack because it doesn't

Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 02/04/07, Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the solution is usually a hack to install firefox, mplayer and codecs in their 32 bit version i say a hack because it doesn't come out of the box, and it needs more then installing a .deb or .rpm usually a half-baked sh script ... My current

What to run on a monster?

2007-04-01 Thread Ira Abramov
Over the last few years I spent very little on hardware, so now I took a big jump and upgraded my lowly P3 old Linux server into something more like a propper workstation. an intel E6600 processor with Core2 Duo and 2 gig ram. the questions are: a. do I gain anything at all by reinstalling my

Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-01 Thread Leon Romanovsky
Ira Abramov wrote: a. do I gain anything at all by reinstalling my system as a 64 bit one? to the best of my knowledge there will be no change in speed, I don't have over 4 gigs of RAM and certainly no intention of running processes of more than a few hundred megs in size. In THEORY,

Re: What to run on a monster?

2007-04-01 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/1/07, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b. I just noticed it has the much talked-about VT extensions, would it be easy for me then to keep the system as a router/firewall and a desktop and securely also install a second slave VM to run other OSs, or do I need a lean Xen base/visor and

[Fwd: Re: What to run on a monster?]

2007-04-01 Thread Leon Romanovsky
Original Message Subject: Re: What to run on a monster? Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 23:55:29 +0300 From: Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Leon Romanovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Leon Romanovsky, from the post of Sun, 01 Apr: have