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Linux on Nokia IP Series Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the but-it-wasn't-designed-for-that dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Michael Rash has written a howto for the Linux Journal on getting Linux to run on a Nokia IP 330. Now we can use a free firewall on a platform normally designed to run Check Point Firewall-1. In these troubling times where IT departments all across the landscape are trying to reduce costs, this will allow companies to say 'No' to expensive support contracts and upgrade costs and still maintain security without having to buy new hardware."

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  1. Re:This is a bunch of crap. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Vendor hardened? Give me a fucking break. What special hardening do you REALLY think the embedded vendor is doing over a standard install? You're lucky to get package versions three or four versions behind the most recent one, with all the unpatched holes and missing features that came with them.

    Sorry, you Solaris types are just clawing and gasping for air as you sink beneath the waves of irrelevancy. Get retrained, or think about switching careers.