[ale] [OT] Monster PC < $500

[Shane McKinley]

Spot on greg. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:greg.freemyer at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:43 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Monster PC < $500

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Shane McKinley wrote:
>> After all it only takes about 50MB of RAM (at most) to run a base 
>> linux system. I am sure if you used a minimal distro you could 
>> achieve levels similar to ESX after running the VMware server
software.....
>>
>> So the only disadvantage is that it isn't turn key and maybe somewhat

>> more insecure.
> What do mean by not "turn key" and "more insecure"?

Chris,

I'm pretty sure he is saying that ESX is a custom built Linux Distro
that has the VMware support built in automatically.  ie. It is a turnkey
VMware distro.

Further the ESX distro has been tuned to be highly secure.  Anything you
build yourself, may or may not be as secure.

Greg
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