[clue-cert] Re: Linux Certification Study Group (LPIC-1)]

[Ward Dduncan]

Wow...nice attitude

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 21:42 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Sigh.  David was pretty clear that he's not on this list.  So he's not 
> going to tell you.
> 
> Dave Maddox wrote:
> > I'll be interested to see what wonk-ass is, too[...]Having enough
> > space to freely muck with partitioning (and be able to boot
> > differently configured partitions), get useful things running in
> > memory without noticeable degradation/swapping,
> [...]
> > Ward Dduncan a écrit :
> >> David,
> >>
> >> Can you please elaborate a little more on what a "wonk-ass" box is?
> 
> To do what Dave mentions you don't need wonk-ass.  PIII 500 with 256MB 
> would do.
> 
> David likes to use virtual labs for teaching so he's probably thinking 
> of a machine that can run 2-4 VMs at a time.  I'd say a current 
> generation CPU (though CPU may be the least important), 4+GB of RAM and 
> 50-100GB of disk space.
> 
> If you don't have that you can get by dual booting different 
> configurations.  All that takes is the disk space for the install. 
> Having a second box would be helpful then, if you can get more than one 
> box to Parsec.
> 
> I have a laptop with a T7200 2GHz and 1GB of RAM.  It's definitely not 
> wonk-ass.
> 
> Dave (not to be confused with Dave or David)
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