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Re: Re: Blue-sky idea: Athena on CD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Mar 25 12:58:52 2004
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To: ghudson@MIT.EDU, longpd@MIT.EDU
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:58:47 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Greg quotes Sam Hartman:
> The idea of Athena on a CD (with no need to touch the computer's hard
> disk) seems like it might be a hack with great customer value,
Phil comments:
>I like the idea! This is similar to the notion floating around
>at one point of students having their own portable disk storage from
>which they boot and use the I/O and CPU resources of a workstation
>device but not the storage. Unfortunately, the lack of consistency in
>and market development for personal disk storage devices, save for
>perhaps the iPod for Mac folks, hasn't helped us move this idea forward
>much.
So do I! But actually, as a counter to Phil's second point, I've found
that the new, high capacity USB drives that have been on the market
for some time work very nicely with Linux. I haven't tried booting and
running off them, but they're great for backup and might be usable for
both data backup and booting/ running applications. All you need is an
accessible USB2 port on the workstation and a power plug.
My 120 gig Maxtor wil copy 30-40 gig in about 40 minutes...
Alex
