[plug] School proxy/monitoring saga

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Thu Jun 15 10:44:04 WST 2000


On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:38:00AM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
 
> > Thanks for the info I have passed on the info to the 2 technicians
> > they are setting it up we are using Linux rather than our now
> > microsoft proxy because our firewall is having probs with realaudia
> > and netmeeting and i know it is free, I suggested propriety not
> > necessarily to pay for but we did not want a "backyard" monitoring
> > program because we have 400 computers using the proxy and yes
> > because i would like support
> 
> That at least clarifies her intented use of the word "proprietary". :)

Wouldn't Linux fall into that same "backyard" non-proprietary category?
I have a feeling the software she would run under Linux would have the
same level of support as Linux itself.  (Whatever that is.)

Regards,

Christian.



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