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10 things that rocked the Linux world

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“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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