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Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net> posted |
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Pine.LNX.4.64.0705022238430.22431@××××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, |
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on Wed, 02 May 2007 22:45:40 -0400: |
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> The 2 major motives for the upgrade is the increasing use of |
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> virtualization on that server, and the Megarac g2 RAC. |
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<drool> Hardware virtualization is something the 3-digit Opterons don't |
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have, unfortunately, and it'll (hopefully) be several more years before I |
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upgrade mobo again, tho as I said I'm upgrading the CPUs to dual-core |
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pretty quickly now. |
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I expect and predict that as hardware virtualization gets more common, |
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the software/chroot level of protection now more or less routine for |
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publicly exposed servers, especially as run on otherwise personal |
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machines, will graduate to hardware virtualized servers, the idea being |
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to make it even /more/ difficult for a compromised process to take over |
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the entire host. That hardware virtualized separation has been the case |
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on "big iron" for some time, and it's nice seeing it finally come down to |
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the consumer level. However, it's a party I won't be joining for at |
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least a few more years, if my hardware holds out, anyway. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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