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Linux Router Project Dead
An anonymous reader submits: "The Linux Router Project is no more. This single-floppy distro was a great tool for building a number of simple super-low-cost network devices. The maintainer has a lot of bitter words about its demise, and it is sad to see it go."
With the price of PC components dropping so rapidly, and how much Linux's iptables absolutely blows as a firewall compared to, say, OpenBSD's pf, this was a sure thing destined to fail.
Just think about this for a moment -- "single floppy distro." You take one of the most unreliable forms of disk media, the floppy disc, and expect it to run something continuously and reliably, such as a firewall/router. You can easily build a PC for $50, put BSD on it (which by the way is easier to install than Debian and easier to configure than iptables), and spend your time doing something more useful, like partying with girls instead of configing your firewall.
That way, other people could still get the code, but at least he could re-incorporate all of the changes to date into a new propreitry system, and start charging for it. Whether people would buy it or not is a different story, but if he made changes people really wanted and they weren't in the free BSD-licensed version, he would at least have a shot of making money from it without depending entirely on donations. (AND there would still be a free version). Of course, this is Slashdot. People here are convinced the GPL is better for some reason.
We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
it is about any laws: most impotant is how peaple are. if they want they steal if they can and want they share intelligent und lovefull. gpl legalize this god given freedom. proprietery thinking should protect people as long they not ready for gpl
Guys, I just heard on the radio that the Linux Router Project is dead...
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