Red Hat & Dell Host Open Source Security Summit

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Red Hat & Dell Host Open Source Security Summit

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday October 4, 2002 @12:28AM from the footing-the-bill dept.

wishus writes "Red Hat and Dell said they would co-host an Open Source Security Summit. 'Join Red Hat, Dell and experts in enterprise security from around the world for a summit on securing infrastructures with open source software.'"

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Dude! by DarkHelmet · 2002-10-04 00:36 · Score: 5, Funny

And I thought the ads that IBM had for Linux were interesting enough.
Imagine ads with "Steven" saying, "Dude, you're compiling a kernel."
*shudder*

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1. Re:Dude! by mark_lybarger · 2002-10-04 00:41 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Imagine ads with "Steven" saying, "Dude, you're getting a dell, wanna roll your own? If not, I hear the Red Hat guy rolls a good one. :D"
2. Re:Dude! by red_dragon · 2002-10-04 00:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I fear that they might want to change the kernel error messages first.
  
  Dude, you're getting a kernel panic!
  
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Opensource the Dell Dude? by Komrade+S. · 2002-10-04 00:42 · Score: 5, Funny

In this case, I think I'll settle for closed source. Thanks for the thought anyway, Dell.

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And right next to this story... by gosand · 2002-10-04 01:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I went to read this story, and noticed in the Breaking News box right next to it was this story:
Microsoft Issues Windows Security Warning
gotta love it

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Enterprise security? by voicebox · 2002-10-04 03:36 · Score: 4, Funny

and experts in enterprise security

Does that mean a couple of red-shirts will be there?