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List:       mandrake-cooker-ppc
Subject:    Re: (Old) Macs powered by linux in a netwrok - documentation
From:       Rick Thomas <Rick.Thomas () POBox ! com>
Date:       2002-06-13 18:29:49
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Here's a paragraph for your article...

One advantage of using (old) Mac hardware for a network server is "security
by obscurity".  Most of the script-kiddies that attack servers go after
Windows machines.  Of the limited reminder who attack Linux servers, most
use hacks that are very x86 hardware-specific, in that they contain
executable machine code for that architecture.  While it's not impossible to
modify the hacks to use PPC machine code, it's a much smaller (hence less
interesting) target.  The thinking goes: "I can disrupt the lives of a few
hundred PPC Linux server owners, or a few hundred thousand x86 Linux server
owners... which one am I going to go after?  Well, duh!"

This doesn't protect you from a dedicated cracker who has it in for
you-personally.  But it does keep off the riff-raff.

That's my logic for using PPC hardware in my home Linux network.  (I have an
x86 PC, running Windows/2000Pro, but it's heavily fire-walled away from the
Internet with PPC based application gateways and/or proxies between it and
the hackers.)

Rick 

> From: Jeroen Diederen <jdiederen@epo.org>
> Reply-To: cooker-ppc@linux-mandrake.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:14:34 +0200
> To: cooker-ppc@linux-mandrake.com
> Subject: (Old) Macs powered by linux in a netwrok - documentation PLEASE HELP
> 
> Dear cooker-colleagues,
> 
> Yesterday I was offered by the editor in chief of 'MacFan', the most read
> Dutch magazine dedicated to Mac users (or maybe even the only one!) , to write
> an article on Linux for Macs. He was a bit reluctant in the first place but I
> convinded him of the fact that (old) Macs can still be used in a network
> environment of Macs (and PC's) to serve other computers. He was also pleased
> with my website. So basically he wants me to write a story on the use of these
> old type Macs as printserver, mailserver, FTP-server, firewall, router etc.
> The article has to be not too technical (not too many command lines and
> stuff).
> 
> The problem is that I don't have any experience with this. But I still would
> like to write an article about it because it helps to promote Linux to a huge
> group of Dutch Apple users. I will probably also tell something good about
> Mandrake as one of the easiest to use distributions out there.
> 
> So basically I ask you to provide me with tips, links etc. Anything that helps
> me to write something properly.
> 
> If I succeed in this mission I may write more articles, e.g. about the use of
> FilemakerPro on Macs and Linux as database.
> 
> So PLEASE HELP ME. It might help to reach a LARGE GROUP OF APPLE USERS.
> 
> Jeroen Diederen
> http://diederen.demon.nl
> 
> 
> 


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