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Craig Foster wrote:
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au">plug-bounces@plug.org.au</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au">mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au</a>] On Behalf Of J Michael Gilks
Sent: Monday, 19 September 2005 9:58 PM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a>
Subject: Re: [plug] Firewall Distros
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<pre wrap="">Love you too man... ;-)
I use clarkconnect which uses the 2.6.9 kernel and is VERY
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<pre wrap="">simple to
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<pre wrap="">admin headless via a web browser..
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What's in 2.6 that warrants an major kernel version upgrade?
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<pre wrap="">In times past I've use SME server which also was a supurb
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<pre wrap="">distro with
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<pre wrap="">fantastic focus on home/small office use..
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<pre wrap="">Had a look at Clarkconnect, interesting, but a lot hanging
off it, ie web and mail servers, photo gallery. Really would
use the box to separate all those servers from the internet.
Very slick looking design and a good business model for Linux
software dude :- Give em the software and charge for service.
SME server won't make it due to my blind, unreasonable
prejudice against Redhat.
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Huh? What the?? It's a web-administered distro! You don't see the
command line or package management very often at all... Just the same as
I haven't noticed anything to say IP-Cop or SmoothWall came from a
specific distro, cos I almost never have to go CLI.
BTW, ClarkConnect came from a similar RPM base (eg
cc-firewall-3.1-41.i386.rpm)
(dancing very carefully around starting a flamewar...)
What's so bad about RedHat that it deserves such a summary execution
like that?
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I can think of many things....<br>
They tend to seriously modify upstream, <br>
often breaking packages on specific hardware combinations<br>
that actually work if you use the upstream.<br>
This includes kernel stuff too.<br>
I have had a number of brushes with this in a commercial environment.<br>
The end result, I switched to a "real" distro<br>
DEBIAN<br>
Here all patches are normally sane and resonably tested. <br>
ie I have not found that any debian patch as broken anything in the
world in which I play.<br>
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I also don't like the lack of easy flexability within more recent
Redhat environs.<br>
It seems that they are becoming a little too "microsoftish" in their
desire to have a<br>
"boot the installer and it just works" distro.<br>
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I could be horridly wrong here. <br>
After all this is just my humble opinion.<br>
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David<br>
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