Good Samaritans Choose Linux

Posted by michael on Thursday December 5, 2002 @01:51AM from the must-resist-punning dept.

blowdart writes "According to this article on the BBC news site the charity Samaritans has chosen Linux to provide it with more secure and powerful computer systems. The installation was supplied by Trustix with IBM providing network security. 'One of the great challenges for computing in any charity is to provide more for less,' said Mike Hermon, Information Systems Manager at Samaritans. According to the Trustix press release the installation is limited to security hardware only, "Samaritans is installing a four zone Trustix Firewall on an IBM eServer x305 and a Trustix Proxy Server on an IBM eServer x300 server.'" Oddly enough, today's Word A Day is Good Samaritan.

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Re:But the Samaritans take their name from the Bib by Cap'n+Canuck · 2002-12-05 02:29 · Score: 2, Redundant

Samaritans are people from Samaria. The "Good Samaritan" was a guy from Samaria who happened to take care of an injured man by the side of the road, which was more than could be said for the other passers by. Maybe these Samritans are just a bunch of people from Samaria?

Any similarity between The Samaritans and a story from the bible is strictly coincidental.