Sacrificial Linux boxes

[Jack]

Sorry, not being clear again. By a sacrificial box,
I mean a box that if the kernel or a driver explodes
and crashes the box nothing important is lost. Also,
since the kernel may crash while testing, hardware
that is somewhat resilient to destruction due to
system crashes that require cold reboots would be
desirable.

I run the 2.6 kernel also and find it to be plenty
stable. I only meant that since the book I'm reading
is specific to 2.6 driver develpoment I want to build
a box on which to develop and want to build one that
can I can sacrifice the files on and can take the
punishment of frequent crashing, hence "sacrificial".

Brian D.

--- Tom Bruno <crweb at vwords.com> wrote:
> I personally don't find running kernel 2.6 to be
> "sacrificial".  I find 
> it quite a bit nicer than 2.4. Especially on
> multi-cpu machines.
> 
> Jack wrote:
> 
> >It's awfully quiet out there. Is the list still up?
> >Am I still subscribed?
> >
> >Well, let's find out. Is anyone running a
> sacrificial
> >Linux box for testing such things as kernel
> patches,
> >contributions or drivers? I'm going to set one up
> for
> >a 2.6 debian box, so I can follow along with this
> book
> >on Linux device drivers. So I'm looking for some
> ideas
> >for what to load into this box on a hardware level
> and
> >ask anyone if they have a particular device that
> needs
> >to be written for or improved on. My budget is
> limited
> >as I am still doing the Mr. Mom bit.
> >
> >
> >Brian D.
> >
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