On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:34:20AM +0100, Paul Reilly wrote:
> Has anyone been following the gpl-violations.org case
> against Fortinet?
Yes, very closely.
> Do the fortinet firewalls run Linux?
As far as I can tell, yes;
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1786094,00.asp
That eweek article is the best summary I've seen so far, as it says;
"The software in question includes, but is not limited to, the Linux
kernel Version 2.4.18,; the UCL data compression library; the Reiser
file system [reiserfs]; l2tpd; the GNU C Library [glibc]; and the GNU
zlib Compression Library [zlib]"
> So I wonder which is true?
> Does Fortinet run Linux?
I believe that it does.
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