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Skriven 2013-11-26 17:39:58 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
  Kommentar till text 16879 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: small linux
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Maurice Kinal wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> using putty to access one of my debian based boxen via ssh

 MK> Ah yes putty!  

yes... to connect to *nix from winwhatever...

 MK> Freenas claims to be using dropbear or at least that
 MK> is what I read on one of the development sites I stumbled across. 

i don't know what for... AFAIK it is not in my legacy freenas... most likely
you found something to do with the (newer) IX releases of freenas... they took
over freenas back in 2010 IIRC...

 MK> I've never used putty.  What for?  Definetly not needed for any
 MK> half-decent linux distribution even for connecting to a dropbear
 MK> based system.

putty isn't needed for any system that has ssh capabilities... even winwhatever
systems if there is some other ssh tool available...

 MK> Hm.  I thought putty was a windows hack?  Why would you put that on
 MK> Debian?  No wonder I haven't been tempted to install Debian here if
 MK> it needs putty.  Weird. 

not weird... [joking] your RAM is scrambled... perhaps it needs a reboot? ;)
:lol: [/joking]

 ml> there may be some javascript items

 MK> That is what I saw.  I didn't see any mention of php but it doesn't
 MK> surprise me any.

every one of the links pointed to in the source code for most pages are
pointing to something.php ;)

 ml> evidently you don't know what GPT is

 MK> Actually I do but evidently you don't know that I don't require it.

i figured that part out real quick based on your reply but i would have thought
that yo would either have known with all the playing you've done OR you would
have researched it and found out what it was in a minute or two ;)

 MK> Same with (u)efi and all that other crippleware you seem to find
 MK> attractive.

i don't find it attractive... uefi is the new BIOS crap...

[quote]
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface is a specification that defines a
software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. UEFI is
meant to replace the Basic Input/Output System firmware interface, present in
all IBM PC-compatible personal computers.
[/quote]

AFAIK, you almost can't purchase any new motherboards today without it... but i
haven't bought any new motherboards in at least a decade...

 MK> ext2 works great for all flash disks.  Always has.  I
 MK> see no good reasom to screw with it just to satisfy some
 MK> overzealous Intel dweebs who obviously have nothing better to do
 MK> than to screw up systems with their obvious crap.  Do you? 

i have no problem with the ext2 (or even ext3) disk formats... i use both of
them on most of my *nix boxen... i've only one that is using that reiserfs
format... i've not looked at others but i have considered looking at the *bsd
ZFS... on the other hand, we don't need anything that it offers so that's
probably still a long way off for our usage ;)

 MK> Besides, I thought you were bragging about this all running on
 MK> older hardware.  What is the deal with GPT etc if that is true?

ummm... if an old recycled dell celeron box with only 768M RAM isn't "older
hardware" what is it? GPT will even work on my even older PII 300mhz boxen if i
decide to but *bsd on one of them...

as for "bragging", i wasn't doing anything close... sorry...

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