Handover Phist: Happy Birthday, Smoothwall! | Linux Today

Handover Phist: Happy Birthday, Smoothwall!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 17, 2006

[ Thanks to Handover
Phist
for this link. ]

“For a few years now I’ve had an old machine sitting in my
closet. It’s a Cyrix 333 with 128Mb ram and a three Gig hard drive,
and it’s been rebooted on average I’d say once a year. It controls
all the traffic in and out of the network and facilitates the
serving of this and a few other websites out to the world. It
happily and quietly ensures that mail, news, and other bits of
information all end up in their proper places, and sneaky little
attempts by crackers get stopped in their tracks…”


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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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