I guess my question would be, who made the decision to drop the Red Hat Linux consumer version, and concentrate on Enterprise solutions. Was this a management decision or a company decision?
I'm not saying it was right or wrong, and to be honest i'm happily composing this on a FC1 box, but i'm just curious if the developers at Red Hat, who really are why the company is where it is today, wanted to go down this road, or if it was a monitary decision. I'm not out to bash one way or another, but am genuinely interested in the reasons.
Btw, thank you very much for everything you have given the community, it is truely appreciated.
Acourding to Microsoft, Hotmail _is_ run on top of Solaris. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/web/news/msnw/Ho tmail.asp
They also state that along with Solaris being used, Windows NT is also used, but they fail to mention how/where it is used, so my guess would be as devel, and not production.
My favorite quote from the article is "Solaris is Hotmail's legacy production operating system". bwuahahaha.
I dont think there is such thing as a 386DX2-66. As far as I know, the highest 386 was a 386DX-40. There was a DX, SX and SL, but no DX2, so I have no idea what the author was talking about, unless they meant a 486.
I am not a college student anymore. Though I did not have ethernet in the dorms I lived it, I did admin a few *nix boxes which were on the backbone. They were secure (well, mostly anyway).
If you think that the security of your box while you are on the _university's_ network is none of there business, then you are wrong. Imagine this, someone cracks your box, and from there cracks into some company and steals their secrets. What do you think is going to happen, the company call you and complain? Wrong, the company and their very unhappy lawyers will immediately go after the university. Believe me on this, it happend to me (for reasons other then security). The company couldnt give a rotton shit about a puny college student with no money, but a university is a different story. Now some stupid college student is going to cost them alot of money. You are on their network and it is their responsibility to make sure that it is not abused.
As far as a solution to the problem, i'm not sure. I would do religious network checks (nmap, nessus, etc) and would prolly create a seperate subnet for the dorms, and have a firewall at the enterance blocking out 80, 6000, and other misc services that college student dont need to share with the outside world. You can learn just as well on a small lan (ie, dorms only) as you can on a larger lan. I've learned everything a ton from a couple wd8013's and a string of coax.
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I guess my question would be, who made the decision to drop the Red Hat Linux consumer version, and concentrate on Enterprise solutions. Was this a management decision or a company decision?
I'm not saying it was right or wrong, and to be honest i'm happily composing this on a FC1 box, but i'm just curious if the developers at Red Hat, who really are why the company is where it is today, wanted to go down this road, or if it was a monitary decision. I'm not out to bash one way or another, but am genuinely interested in the reasons.
Btw, thank you very much for everything you have given the community, it is truely appreciated.
Acourding to Microsoft, Hotmail _is_ run on top of Solaris. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/web/news/msnw/Ho tmail.asp
They also state that along with Solaris being used, Windows NT is also used, but they fail to mention how/where it is used, so my guess would be as devel, and not production.
My favorite quote from the article is "Solaris is Hotmail's legacy production operating system". bwuahahaha.
I dont think there is such thing as a 386DX2-66. As far as I know, the highest 386 was a 386DX-40. There was a DX, SX and SL, but no DX2, so I have no idea what the author was talking about, unless they meant a 486.
If you think that the security of your box while you are on the _university's_ network is none of there business, then you are wrong. Imagine this, someone cracks your box, and from there cracks into some company and steals their secrets. What do you think is going to happen, the company call you and complain? Wrong, the company and their very unhappy lawyers will immediately go after the university. Believe me on this, it happend to me (for reasons other then security). The company couldnt give a rotton shit about a puny college student with no money, but a university is a different story. Now some stupid college student is going to cost them alot of money. You are on their network and it is their responsibility to make sure that it is not abused.
As far as a solution to the problem, i'm not sure. I would do religious network checks (nmap, nessus, etc) and would prolly create a seperate subnet for the dorms, and have a firewall at the enterance blocking out 80, 6000, and other misc services that college student dont need to share with the outside world. You can learn just as well on a small lan (ie, dorms only) as you can on a larger lan. I've learned everything a ton from a couple wd8013's and a string of coax.