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Request: Advocacy Pieces From Veterans

Request: Advocacy Pieces From Veterans

Post by Kenneth Down » Thu, 07 Feb 2002 05:38:06



I am wondering if any of the veterans would care to dig up any of the old
posts from when they was a newbie like me and repost them.

I have a few reasons:

1)  Pure un*erated no-nonsense seflishness.  One of the big advantages
to Linux to me is that I get outside of the one-size-fits-all world I was
in before (which is now paying dividends in Real Life), and I have
discovered many people use linux for reasons dramatically different from my
own.  I would like to hear more about them.

2)  To see historic development.  How many of the ideas you had 1 month
ago, 1 year ago, or longer are still valid and paying off?  What new
advantages have arisen?  And, of course, where if anywhere is Linux not
appropriate for you?  Were there any disappointments?  

3)  Well, yes, to offset the trespassers.

Thanks

--
Ken
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Request: Advocacy Pieces From Veterans

Post by GreyClou » Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:02:45



> I am wondering if any of the veterans would care to dig up any of the old
> posts from when they was a newbie like me and repost them.

> I have a few reasons:

> 1)  Pure un*erated no-nonsense seflishness.  One of the big advantages
> to Linux to me is that I get outside of the one-size-fits-all world I was
> in before (which is now paying dividends in Real Life), and I have
> discovered many people use linux for reasons dramatically different from
> my
> own.  I would like to hear more about them.

> 2)  To see historic development.  How many of the ideas you had 1 month
> ago, 1 year ago, or longer are still valid and paying off?  What new
> advantages have arisen?  And, of course, where if anywhere is Linux not
> appropriate for you?  Were there any disappointments?

> 3)  Well, yes, to offset the trespassers.

> Thanks

I'm all for historical items and seeing the whys and how things today are
legacy hold overs.

 
 
 
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1. Another Advocacy Piece

Well... seems like Linux advocacy is a little thin lately, so here's hoping
I help.

Tacacs+

For those who don't know, Tacacs+ is a Cisco Proprietary Radius-like
protocol. I'm building an ISP in northern Canada and we need stronger
access controls than Radius can provide, so Tacacs+ is the answer.

What has this got to do with Linux? Cisco provides the source code for a
Tacacs+  daemon that can tie into MySQL and compiles on Linux, BSD, Solaris
and a few other unix-alikes (but not NT/2k/XP).

Couple that with the ability for Linux to host webpages, email addresses,
do DNS services all for the low, low price of $0 and you have a very
affordable way to do dial-in services in communities where the average wage
is much lower than what is considered average.

Providing low-cost internet to these communities only increases the quality
of life for the residents. With the ever increasing cost of Microsoft
products, these projects would not be possible using said systems. Linux
makes them possible.

Sidenote: yes, BSD could do it too, but this is COLA, not COBA.

That's my advocacy piece for the day. Hope it provids a rallying point for
the dedicated linux users in this group :)

--
Donovan Hill

Linux: Because you can!
All Rise for the Microsoft Anthem: "BAAAAAH!"

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