[CLUE-Tech] Hack information

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 30 July 2004 06:10 pm, Eric Jorgensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to add to the discussion my favorite way
> to deal with the "crack one service, crack my whole
> box" problem:  vservers
>
> http://www.linux-vserver.org/
>
> With this patched kernel, you can instantiate multiple
> virtual linux machines inside your single physical
> linux box.  This makes it nice to set up a firewall,
> with ftp in a vserver, smtp and pop in a vserver,
> httpd in a vserver, all isolated from the others.  It
> is a "chroot jail on steroids".  The one problem that
> I've found is that the releases always seem to lag
> behind kernel releases substantially.
>
> I don't know if it would have helped in this case, but
> I been using it for a while now and I'm very happy
> with it.

This sounds kind of interesting,  but it also sounds like it would make some 
nontrivial demands on the hardware,  and I tend to use lots of older stuff. 
Is that the case?