[ale] et tu, RedHat?

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Jun 19 12:25:25 EDT 2001


On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Leonard Thornton wrote:

> I have just completed reading a review of the benchmark test of RedHat's
> Tux 2.0 web server.  According to the tests, it is approximately 2.5 to 3
> times faster than Apache or M$ IIS.  Great...I think.
>
> The issue that concerns me is the details of this speed
> increase.  According to the article, Tux is a kernel based web server.  My
> concern:  Is RedHat now attempting to lock in the Linux server market with
> Tux the same way as M$ has attempted to do so in the past by tying the
> kernel and Tux together AND is RedHat's kernel now required to run Tux?
>
> Or am I just being paranoid?

You're just paranoid.  Tux, like all Red Hat code, is GPLed.

The same can not be said for SuSE, etc.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu

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