Personal computing discussed
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Bensam123 wrote:Yeah, keep in mind I'm new to nix and would like something GUI based that is user friendly. I know that doesn't usually go hand in hand with robust, but I thought I'd ask. Hoping for something that is more then ICS in Windows. Like being able to see traffic and where it is going, monitoring and throttling bandwidth, QoS, assigning static and dynamic IPs. Basically all the stuff you'd want from a good router only in nix.
Flatland_Spider wrote:and the other a little desktop or couple year old laptop to play with. The desktop/laptop will be fine with a small proc and 1GB-2GB of RAM, provided you're not interested in Flash.
arsenhazzard wrote:I'd just use a VM or get the free-tier server on Amazon EC2 rather than build/run another machine for tinkering. The only thing you might lose out on is GPU acceleration depending on the distro/VM software.
Flatland_Spider wrote:arsenhazzard wrote:I'd just use a VM or get the free-tier server on Amazon EC2 rather than build/run another machine for tinkering. The only thing you might lose out on is GPU acceleration depending on the distro/VM software.
VMs are nice, but there is always the temptation to go back to the host OS when things get tough. I'm a big believer in living with an OS day in and out to learn it.
Flatland_Spider wrote:The free-tier is only free for a year, and the OP wants a GUI to start with.
Does Amazon provide console access to EC2 machines? I've always assuming it's ssh access only, if that.