RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Sun Apr 25 06:59:13 UTC 2004
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:27:14PM -0400, Mike Bartman wrote:
<snip>
> That's good to hear. Thanks. I need DNS, NTP, SMTP, FTP, HTML, XDM, and
> Telnet support along with some sort of firewall (ipchains for instance).
> Anything else is going to be for maintaining those, and learning more about
> Linux admin and programming. RHL 7.3 had all that...it's looking like FC-1
> does too (please tell me if not! :-)
<snip>
First homework assignment: study up on iptables/netfilter so that you can
move your ipchains scripts over to the newer/better model. Ipchains was
good for its time but has fallen off the end of the tech railroad trestle.
As for the stability of Fedora, FC1 is as rock-solid for me as any other
linux distro ever was.
--
Jack Bowling
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