Dwight Hubbard wrote: > So what kind of firewalls are those M$ companies putting in? Most of the > time it's a Linux system pre-configured to act as a firewall. The same is > true for wifi routers, vpn servers, virtualization servers, vpn gateways, > heck evensome of the printers are actually Linux servers. > Okay, so some clarification is in order I think. With the exception of print servers I've never seen any of those appliances/devices powered by M$ software. Pretty much any network oriented appliance runs Linux/Unix but it's under the covers. It doesn't say "Linux inside". It says Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint. And you don't have to actually know *nix to work on them.
I'm talking about in the server room and on the desktop. I'm talking about people knowing which version of Linux is running on all their computer systems. Why is is that computer stuff has Intel, MS, ATI, and other logos all over it but you rarely see a Tux, Beastie, or GNU mascot logo? In most cases you have to actually get to the command line to find out which *nix is running the thing. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
