Linked by Tim H. on Tue 16th Mar 2004 21:14 UTC
What is the current status of operating systems as far as web hosting goes? Here is a quick run down:
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Come to think of it-Isn't there alot of BSD stuff build into the linux kernel? The GNU System? Isn't there BSD in all unix?
One aspect of it I can verify - ipchains, which was originally ifpwadmin, which was originally taken from *BSD.
However, it has been extensively rewritten. This is because the Linux kernel isn't the same as the *BSD kernel, and has a somewhat different focus. (Mind you, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc, are all *BSD, and they've all got their own particular focuses ...)
Wesley Parish