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| 2024-04-07 | |
Fred has updated Rantburg to a more robust version of Linux; robust as in a bear to setup and operate. Fred has a rather large hill to club, or a learning curve to flatten, as do I.  The changes to the programs such as the web server and the database server, coupled with the tightened security of Debian, coupled with dealing with php, we will be experiencing outages from time to time. Can't be helped. We have no clue as to how long this process will be drawn out, so please, bear with us.
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| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 Linux. So secure. I'm definitely not saying NT based Windows is better, it's not. That said, the recently discovered effort to put a backdoor into the ZX package on Linux should wake people up. It was caught. This time. Doesn't mean a similar exploit didn't already slip by or that one won't slip by next time. The Linux "community" is whining about how this happens because "unpaid volunteers, burnout, blah blah, blah." Not at all untrue. More importantly, hackers focus on the juicy targets. Remember that when someone says "Linux is the backbone of the Internet." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-07 16:59 |
| #9 Keep up the good work, Fred and badanov. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-04-07 16:46 |
| #8 /\ Yes, no need to mention the active monitoring blog sites. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-04-07 16:13 |
| #7 Amen to everything said above. It is heartening to know the outages are intentional, not from suppressive efforts by those, foreign and domestic, who find this small voice of traditional American opinion threatening! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-04-07 14:20 |
| #6 Thank you for your hard work on behalf of all of us. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2024-04-07 11:59 |
| #5 ... was 100% Microsoft, never delt with Apache and PHP during my small-time web hosting years. |
| Posted by: Beldar+Uneter3543 2024-04-07 10:59 |
| #4 My favorite version of Windows for standard PC's was Windows 95, the next release after Windows 3.1. Windows 95 core concepts are still seen almost 35 years later in the newest Windows versions. My web server was Windows Server 2012's using Internet Information Server with Oracle as my Database on my database server, also Windows 2012. I even went out on the limb and tried using Microsoft Access as my Database for a while and was surprised at how fast and reliable it ran on a dedicated database server for a flat file. I credit Intel and lots of Memory for all of that. |
| Posted by: Beldar+Uneter3543 2024-04-07 10:57 |
| #3 Three cheers to you (and to Linux)! |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-04-07 10:21 |
| #2 Thanks, Fred and Badanov! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-04-07 09:58 |
| #1 I love a good upgrade. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-07 00:28 |