White House Switched to Linux

Tue Jul 24 18:08:08 PDT 2001

Isn't it amazing that my little post at LinuxToday has geneated over 10,300
reads in 1.5 days?

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-23-004-20-NW-CY

BTW, has anyone been paying any attention to nVidia's Crush chipsets? IMO they
will really make Linux desktops fly!

"W. Wayne Liauh" wrote:

> The key issue is the White House switched to something that runs Linux.  It
> is impossible to turn the entire operation to Linux in such a short time
> span.
>
> But whether it is by luck or by design, we can always boast the fact that
> Linux saved the day for Dubya.  Can we imagine if the White House home page
> was defaced?
>
> "Deven Phillips, CISSP" wrote:
>
> > In truth, a quick bit of investigation shows that whitehouse.gov doen't
> > in fact run on Linux, but merely Akamized!!!
> >
> > Here's what there server outputs:
> >
> > [dphillips at supertivo dphillips]$ telnet www.whitehouse.gov 80
> > Trying 216.32.119.44...
> > Connected to a1289.cf.akamai.net.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > GET /
> >
> > HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
> > Server: AkamaiGHost
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/html
> > Content-Length: 161
> > Expires: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 05:09:31 GMT
> > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 05:09:31 GMT
> > Connection: close
> >
> > <HTML><HEAD>
> > <TITLE>Bad Request</TITLE>
> > </HEAD><BODY>
> > <H1>Bad Request</H1>
> > Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
> >
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> > </HTML>
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > It should be noted that the web's best forward caching system uses
> > Linux!!!! That is an important win.
> >
> > Deven Phillips, CISSP
> > Network Architect
> > Viata Online, Inc.
> >
> > W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> >
> > >As we know, a couple of days ago, White House was under a serious cyber
> > >attack.  What did the IT manager of the headquarters of the most
> > >powerful nation in the history of mankind do? Switched to Linux!  And
> > >White House survived!
> > >
> > >Looks like someone with connections ought to forward this story to the
> > >Governor.  (Ron? Jeff? Anybody else?)
> > >
> > >http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-23-004-20-NW-CY
> > >
> > >(BTW, I sent this story to LinuxToday; check the e-mail address of the
> > >poster.)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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