Sacrificial Linux boxes
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Tue Mar 22 10:37:37 CST 2005
I used to consider my workstation the "sacrificial", "sandbox", or "lab"
machine, especially when I mostly ran in Windows(95) on it and only booted to
Linux to experiment. (The GUI would be too resource intensive and I'd go
back to Windows.)
A while back though, I set up a "test machine" in the basement so I could
familiarise myself with Gentoo linux while not loosing too much productivity
as I came to be more reliant on the connectivity of the now Linux-dominant
workstation. The closest thing to an "essential" service that it provides is
off-site access to my email (Squirrelmail on Apache), and I can usually elect
not to do anything fatal to the box prior to when I might really need that
access.
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