On 13/05/2005, at 7:38 AM, Paul Kitchener wrote:
Mark Secker wrote:
1.3Ghz iBook getting damaged/stolen etc) I plan to use on the
day to
day basis as a sandbox machine including Linux stuff.
What's a 'sandbox' machine? :-)
it's a "play" machine that you use for learning and testing
configurations and software, it holds no production or personal
data, and you can scrub out/format/reinstall it if you stuff up
(and sometimes you're deliberately trying to stuff up its
configuration just to see what goes wrong so you know how to
recognise and fix the problem when/if you see it "in the wild")
Someone once suggested to me the term was borrowed from bomb
disposal parlance.
Unexploded bombs are placed inside "Sandboxes" while they are
manually (safely?) defused.
These days though I think they prefer to use remote control
devices, probably for the best really ;)
I too have heard encouraging things about Ubuntu.
WAIX download:
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/ubuntu/releases/hoary/
Planetmirror is not on WAIX!
try mirror.3fl.net or http://mirror.pacific.net.au
Cheers
Paul
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