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Linux Netwosix Creator Discusses 2.0 Vision

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the from-the-horses-mouth dept.

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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  1. sys-con? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Popup window by Frogbert · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  3. Is it me... by slashdotnickname · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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...

  4. geek by goarilla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

    1. Re:geek by 0racle · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

      --
      "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  5. Netwosix? by hmccabe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.