[ale] UserLinux

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 14 00:12:11 EDT 2004


Imagine a test bed of a host system with three usermodelinux guest 
systems for testing a routing/firewall situation.  Or testing software 
in a guest system configured in a specific way.  The article was in 
Linux Journal, I believe last year IIRC.
Dow


John Wells wrote:

>Dow Hurst said:
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>>I've read an article that showed how it could be extremely useful as a
>>test tool.  Haven't tried it yet.
>>Dow
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>As a test tool?  Not sure I follow.  Do you recall the article source?
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>I see it as a useful alternative to Red Hat and Suse for enterprise
>deployment, and that is its long term goal.  Peren's impetus was the fact
>that licensing enterprise Linux solutions has now supposedly become more
>costly than Microsoft solutions, and UserLinux is his effort to resolve
>this problem.
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>See http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7149511295.html for a decent overview.
>
>John
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