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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


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