I was thinking of vmware or virtual pc now when they both free. I could 
have netbsd image good for cross building things. I can back it up on 
dvd in case wiblows crashes and I need to rebuild it.

That would do the trick at the expense of some hard drive space.

Regards,
Alex


Erik Berls wrote:
> Well, the second machine wouldn't need to be live all the time.  At
> home I've got an external drive for my game machine.  (External SATA)
> That works pretty well, and I can get things built really quickly.
> 
> -=erik.
> 
> 
> On 1/10/07, Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> I thought about that but I need to maintain another netbsd machine and
>> all I have is another windows machine. I could make another machine but
>> I am going for space/energy efficiency and another machine would kind of
>> defeat the purpose. I might as well run netbsd on another machine and
>> forget about qube all together.
>> I actually thought about ppc mac mini. That would serve the purpose well
>> and look cute at the same time. I would prefer off mainstream processor
>> so binary exploits are harder. I would run netbsd or linux on it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> Erik Berls wrote:
>> > Also note, that there was a paper at pkgsrc-con a couple of years back
>> > about cross compiling pkgsrc on mips and arm.  It might be worth
>> > taking a look at that.
>> >
>> > -=erik.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 1/10/07, Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> >> It is true but now days there are many small cases that look as 
>> good or
>> >> better. I wish I could upgrade hardware on the cube to something
>> >> comparable to intel 500Mhz or more. I guess that would be AMD based
>> >> qube  :)
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Alex
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Pete Rushmere wrote:
>> >> > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 21:39, Alex Pelts wrote:
>> >> >> Just curious why buy another? If I sold mine I would buy something
>> >> more
>> >> >> powerful. Compiles are a big pain on that machine.
>> >> >
>> >> > Why not? They look good!
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards,
>> >> > Pete
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
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