Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> Come to think of it, I've yet to rebuild a Linux kernel on any of
> the production machines. I haven't needed to: it works. But I've
> built new versions of Apache, Perl, sendmail, BIND, and other bits
> and pieces any number of times. And without having to wait for
> a vendor.
I had someone hack their way into a Linux box via it's sister machine, and
recompiling the code would have been a first step (the hackers had recompiled the OS
to create a near invisible back door), and then going through security on it step by
step. Luckily at the time I wasn't the administrator of the system, because
although I could see what happened, it was out of my league to keep out this
particular group of hackers (an interesting side note story I may share another
time).
> And I can take an empty PC and have (for example) Red Hat Linux running on
> it with all of that (except Cold Fusion: no need for it) in about an hour.
That one's debatable as I've yet to find a product that is as easy to work with.
> The differences are that the Linux system will blow the doors off
> the NT system in terms of performance and stability. (Let's see that
> NT box run all of those servers/applications simultaneously. The resource
> allocation problems alone will probably cause it to seize.)
Nope <g> done it.
> It will also
> comply with Internet standards -- which is something that IIS and Exchange
> and other Microsoft products are legendary for *not* doing.
> (And frankly, I'd have a lot less issue with them if they did: my
> attitude would be "Fine, run braindamaged junk like Exchange if you
> want; as long as the messages are RFC822 compliant, what do I care?".)
Just as a side note, although we run NT, we are running Netscape Suitespot for the
web server, MetaInfo DNS, MetaInfo Sendmail, Allaire Cold Fusion and only use IIS
for FTP server. On that same box I used to have WebBoard, but it couldn't reside on
the sendmail server for some of its functions and had to be moved to a new server.
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