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Old 08-14-2008
The Hell of colaboration in UNIX and Linux
I don't want to speak about the goods or bads of both kinds of Operating systems, I only want to share a little experience with you to comment it.

I live in Spain and I have home some old unix systems, some of them that I want to sell or change for other things, like a pair of Sun Blade 2000 and a pseries 44p 170 (IBM AIX RS/6000) and some others that I will be probably throwing away in short like a pair of IBM 43p and a Sun Ultra60.

In my research I haven't found any place to sell my computers (I don't like to use ebay, it looks like when you put 5000 papers diferent sizes on top of your table, open the window, let the wind make his job and use your lighter to give it some fire), and I think that there is people interested on these kind of machines also in my country...

My other experience is that I have posted in some linux forums telling that I want to donate for free my old 43p for example, but I wanted it to be usefull for some project (to help creating a port, help improving hardware drivers in some distros or making some kind of service to the comunity...) and no one has replied to me asking for it.

For my understanding there seems to be a great comunity that studies UNIX, or improves linux, but when you try to help the comunity with somethink like this... there is no clear way to do it.

Thanks for your reading, I hope to see some comment.

PD. Sorry for my bad english.
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UML_SWITCH(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                UML_SWITCH(1)

NAME

       uml_switch -- switch daemon for user-mode Linux

SYNOPSIS

       uml_switch [-unix control_socket data_socket]  [-hub]  [-tap tun device]  [-compat-v0]  [-daemon]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the uml_switch program.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       uml_switch is a daemon for managing a virtual network between user-mode Linux systems, with no connection to the host system's network.

       It will listen for connections on a pair of UNIX domain sockets, and forward packets between clients which connect to them.

OPTIONS

       -unix control_socket data_socket
                 Listen on the specified pair of sockets, instead of the defaults.

       -hub      Act  like  a hub.  This means that packets received will be broadcast over all virtual links.  The default is to act as a switch,
                 where packets are only sent to the link matching the destination MAC address of the packet.

       -tap tap device
                 Connect the switch to a dynamically created tap device on the host

       -compat-v0
                 Specify control protocol version 0 compatibility.

       -daemon   Run in the background as a daemon.

SEE ALSO

       linux(1)

       The UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)

AUTHOR

       uml_switch was written by Jeff Dike and others.

       This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).   Permission  is
       granted  to  copy,  distribute  and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later
       version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

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