me... I'm still waiting for the adsl :D. being one of the people who've pre-ordered the service before it's technically available here, -should- be connected before April 23rd - the ISP's official start-date for the state. After that.... stuff to play with!

dana

Security and plain ol convenience basically! - though there aren't any specific examples, the applefritter info about a/ux mentions that its age brings with it the problems of simply not having had all the updates with respect to security that a more updated unix would have. I'm sure it'd be secure enough for 99% of things - and that even a system as secure as I could make it would prolly be easily breakable anyhoo :D. It's just a habit thing with me perhaps, to do the SysAdmin-type-thing-right. One of the few things I picked up at Uni *grin*.

The routing/firewalling is done on a kernel level too, not as any particular software package, so it's not really a case of just running an application on a/ux that would also work on linux - there's also the documentation.... if I had my imac with me I'd pop some links to the routing/firewalling sites I have stored away for linux, whereas all I've come across for a/ux is one document thats unclear on setting up NAT. (nat = Network Address Translation... I have that running on OSX on the imac atm, to share the net connection with any other macs. It means the iimac runs as a router, and a request for www.google.com from say, a Quadra, looks to google's site like it's coming from the imac - while the webpage returned to the imac is recognised by OSX to be really meant for the Quadra - and sent to it. It's very neat, and is the way I share my net connection :). It works lovely...

so. I have no idea if I've made anything clear, but in case all I've done is waffle crap - security an documentation are the biggies - with documentation being the biggest obstacle. If I had used Unix systems a lot more, I could probably wing it on my own, but I'm still a relative newbie to ix's myself!

dana