Why should the GUI be a problem with an NT box being used for Firewall
services? It's not like people are going to be using the server as a
workstation...
Brian Steele
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> Biggest reason to reject NT as a firewall OS: You can't strip NT down to
> the bare bones. You *have* to keep the GUI, which was made a part of the
> kernel over Dave Cutler's protests. The GUI is the biggest source of bugs
> that threaten a firewall. When Microsoft comes out with a GUI-independent
> version of NT, I'll revisit it as an OS. (Then, it might more closely
> resemble its progenitor, VMS.)
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