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To: JC Jaros who wrote (2284)	8/1/2000 6:13:11 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2615

From Briefing.com ... LM Ericsson (ERICY) 18 7/8 -3/4: Announced a strategic initiative with Red Hat (RHAT 19 1/4 +1/2) to develop a new range of consumer products and services for home communications combining existing industry standards such as Java and the latest open source technologies such as Embedded Red Hat Linux. Disclaimer: I own ERICY. FWIW. Best of luck.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (2284)	8/1/2000 8:10:45 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

I know of no notably more robust and reliable other than chants from freebsd'ers Well I use yahoo every day and it sometimes (very often in my virtual zero linux ever being weird time) behaves very weird in the message area. And if you read what just SGI and IBM are doing it would seem that several thousand engineers seem to think that Linux is quite robust. Every day linux logs millions of hours of uptime. All open souce arguments suggest that the more it's used the better it will be. An that's in the server and firewall and the multiprocessor big-uns from SGI. Security is a process and not a function of the underlying OS. Now if one could say that several of several hundred current linux distributions may have defaults that could be less secure that the one freebsd distribution. Also one could say that the orders of magnitude simpler install of linux over freebsd means that it is more likely that some who install linux will create a less secure system on the other hand it will most likely be orders of magnitude more robust and secure than a borg OS in similiar circumstance. TOm Watson tosiwmee