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Maybe Redhat's configuration was at fault? I have seen popular Linux distributions where interfaces are enabled and have programs listening by default. I, the

Maybe Redhat's configuration was at fault? I have seen popular Linux distributions where interfaces are enabled and have programs listening by default. I, the user, never asked for that. This is one reason I do not use Linux distributions. Too many assumptions about what the user wants.

wvenable 11y ago
You have to remember this was the 90's and it was a different time back then. I think there's a tendency to compare Windows in the 90s with how Linux is now. This was the same era as Mac OS 9 where a single application could still crash the entire system. Exploiting common faults in Linux system software was pretty easy back then too.