On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Dana Brewer wrote:
> I've noticed that a lot of people say they use Linux as part of their
> Internet firewall. But now I've had a company tell me that Linux isn't a
> true multi-tasking operating system, so it shouldn't be used as a
> firewall. What's the true story here? Ideally, in our situation, the
> bastion host would be the firewall, the WWW server, the ftp server, the
> Usenet news server, etc... Is this completely unrealistic?
>
Again, I don't know all.... I like LINUX, and I feel that it is a true
multi tasking OS. But I'm not a CS genius. I personally object to
using it as part of a Internet firewall simply because of this; think of
the unknown multitudes of people out there who have entirely too much
time on thier hands (like me) who have the source code of this OS and can
spend all kinds of time hacking and re hacking our own boxes. I don't
feel that LINUX is a good choice for a firewall. Do you have any idea
how many hacks there are for LINUX? There may be as many holes for
Solaris or IRIX, but that stuff isn't free. LINUX is. My 25 cents worth.
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