[nzlug] Server Consolidation

[Nevyn]

On Nov 13, 2007 7:57 PM, Dirk Pilat <pilatdirk at mac.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:28:36 +1300, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent tutorial on running IPCop
> > within a virtual machine on the file server so that I can reduce my
> > electricity bill and the noise in my room and anything relating to the
> > security of doing such a thing. I've noticed in the list of packages
> > IPCop now has vmware-tools so I'm pretty sure it can be done securely.
>
>
> I am probably going to get stoned here, but why not use OpenBSD as server
> and firewall. As far as I know, pf and NAT together with Theo's clampdown
> on unnecessary daemons should make it pretty watertight, and if you want
> to, pkg_add will deliver all the functionality of an Ubuntu server
>
>
> Dirk

Very simple explanation as to why I'm not using BSD support. The
majority of the cool kids out there seem to be using Linux which means
if I have a question, I've got a bigger pool of people to help as well
as there being more development aimed towards Linux. I did want to
have a look at BSD at some stage but had a few hardware issues so gave
up on it. I'm not sure that the advantages of BSD are worth the
headaches that I was experiencing. Mind you, this was a couple of
years ago when Red Hat 7.3 was my distro of choice.