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On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:41:21 +0100
krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote:

> cool thankyou all for the feedback. wikis are great but they often dont
> give you a view of the real world as opposed to the theoretical one
> 
> The box id be running it has 32GB ram so a reasonable amount. A lot of the
> services I run should be able to fall back to jails, its only really going
> to need a few windows bits and a unbuntu VM for the bitcasa/dropbox
> syncing

	You can probably even run the Ubuntu stuff in a jail under linux
emulation. I run a Centos print server that way to get the Brother printer
drivers.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>