10 things that rocked the Linux world | Linux Today

10 things that rocked the Linux world

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 29, 2009

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“2. Samba
Andrew Tridgell’s Samba on Linux predates developerWorks by a good
five or six years, but his implementation of Microsoft’s Server
Message Block (SMB) protocol is such an important component of
mixed networks everywhere that we really didn’t feel right not
including it here.

“4. SELinux
Released under the GPL by the US National Security Agency in early
2001 and merged into the kernel since 2.6.0, Security Enhanced
Linux provides support for a number of access control policy
models, such as mandatory access control and role-based access
control.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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