Hi All,
I’m interested in taking a firewall in new directions (beyond default DROPs and Tarpits). Below is an email sent to a often used resource.
~JW
Hi Doctor,
A note from the field. I recycled an old Dell GX110 (733MHz/512MB). Fedora 10, Ubuntu 8, and Slackware 12 fell due to their inability to setup properly (X is still a problem). Ubuntu was very problematic (perhaps due to low memory?) - it would not draw windows properly and frequently locked up. Red Hat did not make the list because I still hold a grduge for shipping the broken compiler circa RH 5.0.
But OpenSuSE is very nice. X11 setup was painless with SaX (though I had to run it manually to get out of generic VGA mode). I was able to get SAMBA run properly with a few clicks - the Linux box is now joined to my Windows domain. I’m having one problem with persisting the hostname: euler.home.pvt. hostname only persists the FQDN through a session, and not across reboots???
Software Updates worked near flawlessly - the box is fully patched. I think the one hiccup was due to a dropped TCP/IP connection. I’ve got NMap and ZenMap installed (I have to try the generic Linux of Nessus). KDevelop is installed with a rich feature set including gcc 3.4 and Ruby on Rails .
This distribution should be a point of concern for Redmond.
Jeff