Linux Netwosix Creator Discusses 2.0 Vision

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxWorld recently took the time to talk to Linux Netwosix creator Vincenzo Ciaglia to answer why there are two releases (1.3 and 2.0-rc1) within a week of each other, among other questions. From the article: "We think that its light structure could make Linux Netwosix suited for all network security work. For a good network plan, the sysadmin needs a light system that is highly configurable. Every sysadmin wants to configure networks, and work with them, with the possibility of doing everything alone."

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sys-con?

[Anonymous Coward]

Aren't they the ones that allowed Maureen O'Gara to attack/smear PJ on Groklaw?

I'm sure it's an interesting article but I'll wait to see it somewhere else before I read anything on a sys-con site.

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[Frogbert]

Wow a DHTML popup window covering the text. Great way to get me to read the article. Hint: If I can't see popup windows it means that I have gone out of my way to block them, making me see them again means you just wasted your bandwidth.

Is it me...

[slashdotnickname]

Or does the article never answer it's lead question of why the two releases within a week of each other?

I saw a lot of product pitches but why, of why, why the close releases!? Not that it's that important, in fact I'm sure they were worked on semi-independetly of each other... but now I must know... I smell a cover-up...

geek

[goarilla]

i am the creator of neo linux triumph U are a huge nerd

no seriously, it's very good this youngster creates a distro. But it's aimed at security
I don't trust a 19 year old to know everything about security, he maybe be a genius
although they say the same about me knowing that i went through my senior two years
in highschool without books. I'm a european ... had 6 hrs chem, 6 hrs math, 5 hrs
physics and 3 hrs biology/ a week in my last 2 yrs. But hell i'm now a 4 years slackware user and i'm not even near to making a security based distro, i damn well
hope this guy has a team or some backup. because damn man u must be either lonely
or have way too much spare time

Re:geek

[0racle]

I don't expect people who have worked for years as admins to know everything about security. I wouldn't expect a 19yr old to really know anything about security.

Re:geek

[Anonymous Coward]

i'm 25 yrs old, and while i'm not saying this guys knows "everything" about security, i'd probably feel a lot more comfortable about a 19yr old "hacker" (i'm referring to old school purist version not current media twisted version) putting out a security distro than many of the 45+yr "i've been doing this since mainframes" types out there. One of the stereo types that I am constantly beat down w/ is that i'm some young upstart kid who only has a few years under his belt, so why should the people w/ twice as much yrs of experience listen to me? What they don't take into account is that I've been programing (admittedly it was BASIC on a c64) since I was 6, and using the internet since I was 12, accessing various systems through a sun box, until i was 16 and started using linux. So am I the kid with 5 years as a sys admin? or the veteran w/ over 12 yrs of systems experience, and almost 20 programming?

Not saying they[older techs] dont know their stuph too, I just think you will find that the younger ones find weaknesses in the systems faster due to the fact that they seldom have a strongly established sense of how things work, thus allowing them to explore avenues the more experienced people might not even consider.

That being said, having only one person working on the project is almost as bad as thinking that years of experience would improve the quality. Multiple participants are a definite requirement towards a properly implemented anything, because no1 is perfect.

Netwosix?

[hmccabe]

Are there any marketing students out there who can contribute to OSS projects by coming up with product names that aren't (in my opinion) the types of things businesses are going to immediately disregard because they sound retarded. Gimp may be a passable image editor, but it shares its name with a failure to walk correctly, or worse, the dude in the mask in the basement. Divx may be an ok codec, but naming it after someone else's failed technology on a lark hardly seems like a good idea. Netwosix sounds like something Homer Simpson would make. It's not all bad, but there's so much that is.

This is news?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me get this straight. Yet another lightweight linux distribution has a BSD-like packaging system and claims to be all about security. They release a new version and then a separate tree based on a slightly new architecture. How is any of this news? How is this different from about a dozen other linux distributions out there?