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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."
Neo asks, what is the Wosix?
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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.
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.
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...
"Every sysadmin wants to configure networks, and work with them, with the possibility of doing everything alone."
Also, every generalization is false.
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with the possibility of doing everything alone
Yes, that's the problem with geeks... we end up doing literally everything alone.
You remember Netwofive? This is one more.
i am the creator of neo linux triumph U are a huge nerd
... had 6 hrs chem, 6 hrs math, 5 hrs
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
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
I'm planning to expand the portage tree, doing other 300/400 packages ports, with everyone security oriented.
Is this distro based on Gentoo's portage? If so, what is this distribution trying to fix? And is this guy "porting" packages all alone? He probably never figured how much work it will be to maintain his own distro.
Netwosix will try to offer the first valid alternative to historically secure systems like the *BSD
stability, performance, and support for mission-critical application deployments
users can benefit from outstanding robustness, scalabilty, and reliability
Big words. If he wants stability why does this 19 year old jerk use the latest 2.6.14.5 stable kernel? Where do all those features come from? You won't get security and robustness by just repackaging software. Is Ciaglia saying he reviews all the code in his distro and fixes broken stuff? All on his own? On several platforms? Look at their site: Their "community" consists of merely two people.
Goodness, just because every kid can burn a bootable Linux CD that doesn't mean he just created a new distro!
Call this a flame. But I really don't see the point of Netwosix.
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.
I really wonder what is the advantage of using portage over apt-get in handling repositories. I mean more and more linux distro makers are moving to portage. Gentoo has it. Now netwosix also have it. Is it because of a flaw or drawback that they see in apt-get ?
It would be good if there is an article giving the pros and cons of portage over apt-get and clear the matter once and for all. Both are very popular amoung *nix users.
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Hey, I read through the install doc, you have to manually setup fstab plus a few other things. I do not see why anyone would pick this distro. Using kickstart or custom tag files (Slackware) we can easily have a minimal install done. I would like to see how this distro compares to NetBSD ....
It looks like a "wag the dog"
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You don't need to make a package for it, just a script to built it. The sources/packages can be downloaded from the original site at build time, and not from a central repository, if seen fit. Of course you can always download from a mirror.
From the article:
Also, if your company wants to contribute to Netwosix development, let us know, because we're seeking business partners for financial support!
Should have left that out, dude - or at least be a little more subtle. You can't be that blatantly honest when asking for cash!
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