Linux: Only for firewalls
I found this auction on Swedish auction site Tradera (a site owned by eBay by the way) and I found the item description quite funny and thoroughly stupid. Here it is in English for the benefit of those of you who don’t understand Swedish courtesy of Google Translate.
As you can see this is not really a “real” firewall product. It’s just an old computer with Linux and some firewall software installed on it. Why would a firewall have a graphics card and a sound card for example? It wouldn’t.
What I find so amusing is that he says that “sure, you can use it as an ordinary computer but then you’d have to install Windows or similar on it”. Wouldn’t someone bright enough to handle a Linux firewall also know that Linux is perfectly good as a desktop OS as well? The mind boggles.
