From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 09:16:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28264 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA28257 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:16:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from aries.bb.cc.wa.us ([208.8.136.11]) by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA06639 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:15:31 -0800 Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by aries.bb.cc.wa.us (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA10939 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:09:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:09:34 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: CTC Linux Mandate Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just a sour note. The CTC (Community and Techinical Colleges), an organization with lots of beurocracy, is trying to decrease their web traffic through the use of Squid. So now they have mandated that all community and technical colleges must have a LINUX box on campus to run this program. The real problem is that the people at the CTC don't know a thing about Linux. They are forcing it becuase the people at the U of Washington Support it, and they can ask questions to them. Luckily we already run squid on FreeBSD and had the mandate waived for us. They are also very worried about the Ping-o-Death. Is FreeBSD really immune to the ping-o-death, and is Linux not? This might help us turn them from the darkside. :-) Anyway :-((( Christopher J. Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us) Computer Support Technician I (509)-766-8873 Big Bend Community College Internet Instructor FreeBSD Book Project: http://www.bb.cc.wa.us/~chris/book.html I may Be inaffective, but atleast I am good at it.