Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: routers and mp3 players that do FLOSS Was: slaveryware
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:07:03
Message-Id: efpkvn$eo2$5@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: routers and mp3 players that do FLOSS Was: slaveryware by Greg Bur
1 "Greg Bur" <greg.bur@×××××.com> posted
2 976cb44f0610011159i577d04bbja840416ec43c4ce3@××××××××××.com, excerpted
3 below, on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:59:51 -0400:
4
5 > All-in-all if you're looking at building a PC-based router I would
6 > just use an old box if you have one laying around and put a pair of
7 > network cards in it. Unless of course you have all AMD64 systems on
8 > your network. In that case it would make more sense to buy or build
9 > an AMD64-based system and then do something like I have done with
10 > squid.
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12 That's pretty much where I'm at, all amd64 at this point. Thus, I'm left
13 debating whether it's worth the extra hundred or so to go with an amd64
14 router box just so I can be running the same thing everywhere, or not.
15
16 Thanks. That's exactly the type of feedback I was hoping for! =8^)
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20 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
21 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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