SaidinUnleashed
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Posted: Oct. 29 2004,03:05 |
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Okay, story time!
Today during my programming class, the telnet server for the room crashed, burned, and died.
That's kinda what you get for running RH 7. O_O -_-
Anyway, my teacher went into panic mode(!!!) and asked me for help, so I booted up the dead server with DSL 0.8.3 (toram, of course, never seen it load so fast! Dual 2ghz opteron, 3gb ram!!!), installed the gcc1.dsl, and each of the clients with whatever other random versions of DSL i had in my bag, ranging from 0.6.2 to 0.8.2 (all toram of course), set up the ssh server, created 20 (or so) users, got everyone logged in, and we were back in business. 
After class, my teacher pulled me aside and explained that he was muchly impressed with DSL (it even worked with the wonky overhead projector) and would be interested in using it permanently on the classroom server. If it had a telnet server (so that (really dumb) people with windoze (who can't even get putty) can get in from home).
He especially liked the "If it crashes, just reboot, because the filesystem is read-only". And would have the hard disk for basically the /home /root and /var directories and another partition for bulk storage. (He's smart enough to set this up, not me ^_^)
Anyway, how hard would it be to create an telnet-server.dsl?
I think that with that, the gcc1.dsl, and gnu-utils.dsl, he would have everything he needs to run the server practically crash-proof. And I would get loads of brownie points (if not extra credit).
Anyways, there's my story from the front line against unstable OSes.
-J.P.
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