colinux

Post by **Underpants?** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:45 pm

anyone play with coLinux, if so did you have any issues?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:50 pm

persionally, i have run simular things ( virtual PC etc etc ) and it does usually work out reletivly well..

i dont see using this as a main thing, Rather just a test to see if something is working/could work before settingup/buying a computer to do a job..

Post by **Underpants?** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:03 pm

I dunno, it seems like the nmap, encrypted chat (ie 'talk') openvpn and secure remote file transfer stuff would be pretty attractive for a cheap standalone workstation, but then again, I'm a nerd.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:31 pm

Then again, getting something like Knoopix, or Damn Small linux wouldent do anything for you?

i would rather put in a CD, Boot up, and play to find somethign out rather then Partitioning, installing, compiling, Configuring, Doing.. ya know?

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:33 pm

Knoppix is nice but it is getting taxing on the hardware. I have 2 different releases one recent and one from about 1 and a half year ago and the gui in the new one is a lot heavier on the pc than the old one.

Post by **Underpants?** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:08 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:Then again, getting something like Knoopix, or Damn Small linux wouldent do anything for you?

i would rather put in a CD, Boot up, and play to find somethign out rather then Partitioning, installing, compiling, Configuring, Doing.. ya know?

it installs in a subdir. and impatient that I am after little response from board or colleague I wound up giving it a whirl... it's actually pretty easy and quick. I apt-getted a bunch of cool debian shit too, 15 minutes, tops.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 4:44 pm

Survivor wrote:Knoppix is nice but it is getting taxing on the hardware. I have 2 different releases one recent and one from about 1 and a half year ago and the gui in the new one is a lot heavier on the pc than the old one.

i agree, although you could just choose a different windows manager upon bootup.

Underpants, you have a screenie for us?

Post by **Underpants?** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:36 pm

oh hey juggsy long time no see...
I wasn't clear on why this would be useful. I have a few standalone remote hosts that need,
due to various 3rd party reasons to use old O/Ses (ie. 98) and figured this would work out
pretty swell for encrypting file transfers and tunneling email, etc. without having to drop in another system for firewalling/vpn. I use openvpn at a couple of sites and my thinking is the extra PC hardware is just another possible point of failure. I tested it on my work laptop (256mb pIII nothing special). The install was fairly easy

they don't have any solid documentation on networking so there's some flexibility for
interpretation. I cheesed out and bonded the TAP-driven interface statically instead
of doing it the right way using dhcp and ics, which would work better in legacy platforms.

so far, everything is identical to a very stripped Debian install. I've seen screenies
of people installing X, as well.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:53 pm

that's very interesting. thanks alot for the screenies. i just might take my work laptop home and try this out over the weekend. give it some use.

i'll give you a shout if the networking side starts to piss me off, since i'm not a linux whore.

Post by **Underpants?** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:09 pm

get ready for good times brother

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