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would welcome a Google takeover of Doubleclick if it ment a radical change to its underhanded spyware tactics. If Google can reform this company into something less invasive, I really would welcome that.

Matousec, which did the testing, found that the Comodo free firewall is the best. Are Matousec and Comodo completely separate organizations? Matousec is Japanese, and English is clearly not the native language of whomever runs Comodo.

Matousec's review covered "personal firewalls", an artificial category which may eliminate products of interest. For example, Comodo doesn't recommend its own firewall, it recommends the Trustix Enterprise Firewall, which is free, also.

At minimum, this is VERY weird. I'm not saying there is anything wrong, but anyone should wonder when all the traditional companies are shown to be producing products of poor quality, and three new companies are shown to be the most trustworthy. Especially when two of those companies give their products away free.

I've thought for years that Symantec and ZoneLabs were not hiring enough people with technical knowledge; their products show that. I discovered that Sunbelt Software was doing something fishy. Certainly the major suppliers have shown many examples of bad behavior.

But, what about these 3 new companies? How can it be true that they are immediately better than all the others?

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You don't have permission to access /installation/index.php on this server.
Apache/2.0.55 (Trustix Secure Linux/Linux) PHP/4.4.2 Server at www.trustix.net Port 80

WOW! Now that is secure.

At least you can reach this site, which looks awfully commercial-style with no community.

Disclaimer: I am not a Trustix employee but do believe in using the best tool for the job. For example, I am writing this from a new iMac (which I love.)

I use Trustix on my servers because it is designed specifically for servers. Unlike other distros, Trustix is completely CLI and bloat is minimal. By default, a base system is installed (basic GNU Utilities, and sshd.) The default config files for any installed service were created with security in mind. For example, sshd does not allow root login. Also, services are disabled by default. If you installed Samba along with the base system, smbd would not run at boot. I don't like to spread marketing propoganda but this link provides some usable information among the marketing department's BS.

Swup is my favorite feature of Trustix. Swup is to Trustix as Apt is to Debian. Swup offers the same features of Apt, dependency checking, software removal, ect. but Trustix is an RPM based distro. Before updating the system, a PGP key is checked and compared on the system and the remote server. IIRC, Trustix can trace its roots to Red Hat, as many other distros are such as SuSE can. My first experience with a Linux distro was with Red Hat, many years ago. I could use Fedora or CentOS but IMHO, they are bloated when compared to Trustix.

Finally, Trustix has a basic roadmap for future releases. I know that a year and a half from now, Trustix will no longer be releasing packaged updates for my TSL (Trustix Secure Linux) version. Also, there is only one type of TSL version available. If you or your company decides to purchase support for TSL, your PHB will be able to feel warm and cozy. The product you will be using is the exact same product you can download from trustix.org for free. If you are the sysadmin and PHB like me, support is not needed. I am lucky because I am basically my own boss. My only two objectives are using minimal monetary resources and maintaining a secure and stable IT infastructure. My superior feels that the Sysadmin is able to choose the best products and tools to follow these objectives. I respect him, he respects me, and I am happy with my job.

Members of the trustix.org mailing list are always willing to give help when needed. Surprisingly, if an issue cannot be resolved by list members, Trustix.com employees often step in to help. If I were to leave or be moved to a different position (hopefully promoted), support could be purchased for the existing system if needed.

I know that Trustix is a funny name but give it a try. At home I've got a 300 Mhz Celeron with 64 MB RAM running Trustix 2.2. I has 2x200 GB drives using software RAID 1. I have it configured as a Samba PDC for the Windows boxes in the house my family uses. I'm currently working on connecting my new iMac to the Domain. We have four PCs which use it for authentication and home directories; performance is never an issue. I have a duplicate box minus the 2x200 GB hard drives which I use for testing and it also runs Trustix 2.2. Give it a try.

Isn't this unethical behaviour. They obviously have debts, i.e. creditors. The creditors get nothing, but the same company has basically started again. [snip] What is different here, except you guys think they are the good guys?

What's different is that it's NOT the same company. Check out in this discussion where one of the two people creating the new companycomments on the situation.

The company that went bankrupt (Trustix AS) had many products. The two people supporting what was Trustix Linux used to be employees of Trustix but were laid off months ago.

A beautiful thing about open source licensed projects is that if the company creating the program goes under, it's comparatively easy to create a new company (or consortium or whatever) supporting it. With a proprietary program, if the company goes under, the individual developers who worked on it have no rights to continue the project.

Although as some have pointed out, some creditors may prefer the proprietary model because maybe someone will buy the assets of the bankrupt company to get the rights to the proprietary code which will help creditors get more money back.

Second: Didn't your mother teach you never to ruin a perfectly good discussion with facts, of worse, first hand knowledge? Stop reading Slashdot and get back to running your company!

Third: According to the Trustix web site, Jo Uthus is/was still VP of product marketing, yet you've just (according to the press release above) hired him for the new company. That validates the comparison between the companies. Why would he do a better job for the new company than for the old?