Stratcat wrote:

"Flwrite" <lostwithout@home.com> wrote in message

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... configure an old PC to run a Linux based firewall.

Gee whizzz, why can't I use Windoze????  (WCIUW?)

I'll let Usenet provide the definitive answer, but I'd suspect it's 'cuz
Linux is generally less vulnerable to attack, and less often the
target of an attack, 'cuz most script kiddies are writing for M$ OS's.

Not a definitive answer but linux tends to be a lot more sympathetic towards old hardware. It will also reliably tolerate high system overloading of slow old hardware.

And then you have to clobber performance further for Windoze by adding various 'third party' 'protection' with anti-virus and individual firewalling.


There are too many variations of linux to make for an easy target. You might easily be able to breeze through the buckshot holes the rotten wooden big barn door of Microsoft, but that isn't so easy for the scattered variously shaped clouds of linux. (:-O)


WCIUW?... Err, nope... can't guess that one!

Have fun,
Martin