Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:28:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN for FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2 Message-ID: <37C2BA15.AE32C1EE@softweyr.com> References: <E11JFHc-0005Ab-00@rz114s1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Philipp Mergenthaler wrote: > > Hi, > > Wes Peters wrote: > > Apparently Darren didn't read the blurbs about the Linux Death Match > > at the recent Chaos Computer Club campout in Germany. It was won by > > a FreeBSD box with NO offensive effort, only defense. > > Actually it was a Debian 2.1 box. That team had more experience with > FreeBSD (and considered briefly to replace the Linux with that) and > installed some programs off of a FreeBSD CD. Somehow this got blown > up in the news... > > See e.g. (in German): > http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/archive/de-bsd-chat.99/0176.html > news:///<7p9r88$6bt$1@gamma.ray.org> > > Both are accounts of participants of that team. > A rough translation of the former mail: > "... That doesn't exactly fit the truth, but it's good press :-). > The others "stole" our net access with a tcp/udp connection resetter. > So I asked someone to fetch my FreeBSD 3.2 CDs, since they have the > unmodified sources in distfiles/. That wouldn't have been possible > with Redhat-CDs :-)" Still not bad press, is it? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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