Re: [Devil-linux-develop] suggestions for 0.5 Beta CD layout

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:14:09PM +0200, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> OK, then tell me from your experience how often did you have to change a 
> CD-ROM drive in those 15 systems? 

Well if the system runs  from CD I had a crash on any of them maybe
every 6 weeks (that means every 6 weeks crashed another one). Since
running from ramdisk, I didn't have to replace any part in the last 2
years.

> True, but if that happens in once in every 1-2 years(estimated) that a
> CD-ROM drive has to be replaced they should understand that it an 
> implication of security. In the mean time you keep sending them updated 
> CD's. They just reset the machine change the CD and the computer is 
> starting up the new system.

Hehe, well, that's what's too bothersome to me ... I don't earn any
money with it so I don't wanna have a constant "support job" :)

If replacing the hardware every year is the price for security, then
the folks I made the firewall for don't need security :)


To cut this issue short ... I decided to work on devil-linux because
of the concept it has _now_ ... if this is going to be a "high
security, multi feature project", it's just not the right stuff for
me. I just prefer a _small_ easily comprehensible system, with low
maintenance and relatively good security. This what devil-linux 0.44
is. If that design is scrapped. I'm just in the wrong project.

Please don't get me wrong. Maybe what I saw as devil-linux when I
looked at it, was just not what devil-linux want's to be. It was just
very similar to the system I have now, and I wanted to put my effort
in devil-linux instead of my own system, for it to beneficial to more
people than just me. But in case devil-linux has different goals,
they're not mine. :) I do my stuff for art-projects, human-rights
groups and environmental groups like the BUND in germany for free,
since these groups better spend their money on their work instead of
their equipment. They don't need a particullary high security system.
They just need a system that simply works without anyone looking after
it.

bye
   MM

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