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Application Layer Packet Shaping on Linux
sommere writes "We have added application layer (layer-7) filtering to Linux. That means that you can set up your linux-router/linux-switch to prioritize mail over the web over kazaa or gnutella regardless of what port each program is using. Colleges have been paying thousands of dollars for packet shapers to prioritize their networks, now you can do it for free. Get your kernel patch at l7-filter.sourceforge.net."
My name and thier protocol, it's kinda like Phoenix browser and database!!
thats giving me an idea.;) make user-agent: Internet Explorer even more slower than it is right now.
the difference between bill and linus in this case is that bill FORCES it on you, linus does not.
Not that there is an HTML browser in every windows manager for XWindows or anything. Oh wait, there pretty much is. Um...
And the difference between them and MS is? Oh wait, I know, MS is actually an HTML rendering engine for developers, not just an inaccessible browser that is built into the XWindow desktop managers.
IE was a HTML rendering technology; the IE browser was just the pretty face in the early days. It was designed so developers could have their application display an HTML page just like they can tell Windows to draw a Button or show a Picture or put text on the screen.
It was an extension that was added to Windows just like when the ability to display a picture by just calling a few APIs was added to Windows.
Microsoft wanted Windows to be able to offer HTML display support natively, the browser was not something they set out to conquer the world with. At the time, they were more focused on MSN and its 'Explorer' based online browsing service.
People complain about IE being shoved down their throats, but I don't see them complain about the BITMAP rendering engine in Windows being shoved down their throat because MSPAINT is included in windows.
If you don't like IE, delete the Icons for it. You can even delete the HTML rendering engine, but it will break any application (such as ones made by my company) that use the HTML rendering engine to display help and HTML content for our users.
Additionally, I also don't see people complaining about the Browsers being shoved down their throats that are included in almost every Windows Manger for Linux. I also don't see people complaining that IBM shoved a browser down people's throats with OS/2. (If anyone is old enough to remember, it was the first mainstream PC OS that shipped with a built in browser - Windows was not. And in OS/2, it was just a browser, not something developers could access or use in their applications.)
Give up the 'We hate Microsoft Goat', especially over something like IE and the few megs that is added to the core of windows that gives developers a mechanism for displaying HTML natively in Windows. This is no different than the BITMAP rendering core in Windows or any other piece of Windows that makes Windows what it is and the GUI of Windows what it is.
Why does everything from MS have to be bad and everything from Linus have to be good. Please stop this crap. This has become a religious war that is really stupid when you step back and look at it.
In fact it has gotten so bad here, that there are even flame wars and religions popping up on which Linux distribution is better or whether OSX, Solaris, AIX, or FreeBSD is better.
What happened to evaluating products for what they are instead of just hating everyone else?
Please don't reply with the 'MS Bully, Monopoly' stuff, Sun, IBM and Apple have all done very 'questionable' stuff with licensing and anti-competitive practices. -And yes I can provide examples.