Build A Cross-Platform Test Network With Samba & GRUB 97
An anonymous reader writes "This tutorial shows how to combine Samba and GRUB to build a compact, highly adaptable, cross-platform test network, capable of booting and networking a large number of operating systems on a small number of machines. Though Samba and GRUB can manage many different operating systems, this tutorial focuses on Linux and Windows." Reg required on the story.
Cross-platform via networking (Score:5, Insightful)
Personally, I hate rebooting and I also need to test my Java code on Mac OS X, so how I handle this problem is by keeping my source code in a directory on my Linux machine mountable via Samba and NFS. Compiling and testing on Windows 2000 or OS X is just a matter of hitting a button on the KVM switch. You could probably do it via VNC if you don't want to invest in a KVM (or, of course, if you don't mind having multiple monitors and keyboards, you could just have independent machines).
Wow, that's...really not worth reading. (Score:3, Insightful)
Waste of time.
Re:Wow, that's...really not worth reading. (Score:5, Insightful)
I found it mostly a vanity piece, really. Much of the advice she gave was quite frankly wrong, silly, or unclear (ie; could have used context).
Examples;
Advice given by self-ascribed "gurus" should be taken with a suitable quantity of NaCL, in my humble opinion.