Subj : Re: Helen OS
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Moondog
Date : Mon Oct 12 2020 06:02 pm

 Re: Re: Helen OS
 By: poindexter FORTRAN to paulie420 on Mon Oct 12 2020 06:35 am

> -=> paulie420 wrote to Mortifis <=-
>
>  pa> I use Raspberry Pi's for many things around my home network. I haven't
>  pa> seen or tried HelenOS; but it seems like theres many new, niche OSes
>  pa> popping up for RPi's that... IMO aren't very worthy; however I don't
>  pa> know HelenOS.
>
>
>  For around the price of a rPi, I bought a used thinkpad with a broken
>  keyboard, maxxed the RAM out and loaded Proxmox on it. I'm running
>  PiHole on it, as well as several other OSes. It sits folded up under
>  my router, making a compact little homelab.
>
>  I hear there's a rPi version of ESXi, with enough memory it might
>  make more sense to run bare metal virtualization - then you could run
>  whatever OS you want?
>
>
>
>
> ... Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Another used hardware alternative is getting used thni clients from ebay or
other liquidators.  They are powerful enough to be used as netowrk
appliances or other light duty applicaitons.

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