On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:40 -0800, James Newtons Massmind wrote:
> I DID ask for help. At one point I had 5 members of a local Linux club at my
> house trying to get RedHat up and running (let alone secure) on a box that
> IIS under NT had been running just fine on. Months later we discovered that
> Linux wasn't clearing an ARP cache... Or some such thing.... Anyway. 

You know, I was going to guess the distro you tried was Redhat, I guess
I would have been right.

Redhat, for a time, made some very "interesting" decisions in their
distros that IMHO made them FAR too insecure for anything live on the
net. They followed the mickeysoft way of enabling everything, along with
some other bad ideas, from a security point of view.

Unfortunately you were exposed to that, and it's the reason you have the
opinion of Linux you do. FWIW Redhat has gotten MUCH better. Many would
still steer people away from Redhat for servers, but I've had great
luck. Their Fedora line has been quite promising, and I actually run two
servers with Redhat, one 9.0 and the other Fedora Core 3.

The one thing people really dislike about Redhat is they seem to do
everything a little differently from everyone else, especially when it
comes to the locations of config files. Since I've used Redhat for so
long I know where to look, but I can see how someone new to Linux may
get confused (since most of the docs describe distro's that put things
in the "normal" places.

TTYL

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