[ubuntu-uk] New Linux website - Feedback? [was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 28]

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:32 +0000, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> Actually, I was under the impression that the stack exchange software
> (which drives stack overflow and askubuntu and others) is Free
> Software, albeit on a Windows and C# platform.

It appears to run nginx on Linux, or at least its front-end
load-balancer/proxy does:

root at server:~# nmap -sV -O askubuntu.com -p 23,22,21,80,81,443

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-11-18 17:39 GMT
Interesting ports on stackoverflow.com (64.34.119.12):
PORT    STATE    SERVICE   VERSION
21/tcp  filtered ftp
22/tcp  filtered ssh
23/tcp  filtered telnet
80/tcp  closed   http
81/tcp  filtered hosts2-ns
443/tcp open     ssl/http  nginx web server 0.7.65
Device type: general purpose|WAP|router|firewall|webcam
Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 2.6.X|2.4.X (92%), D-Link embedded
(91%), Linksys embedded (91%), Peplink embedded (91%), Check Point Linux
2.4.X (88%), MikroTik RouterOS 3.X (87%), Linksys Linux 2.4.X (86%),
AXIS Linux 2.6.X (85%)
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.15 - 2.6.24 (92%), D-Link DSA-3100 or
Linksys WRT54GL (DD-WRT v23) WAP, or Peplink Balance 30 router (91%),
Linux 2.6.22 (91%), Linux 2.6.24 - 2.6.28 (89%), Check Point VPN-1 UTM
appliance (88%), Linux 2.6.18 - 2.6.27 (88%), Linux 2.6.9 - 2.6.26
(88%), Linux 2.4.21 - 2.4.31 (likely embedded) (87%), Linux 2.6.15 -
2.6.23 (embedded) (87%), Linux 2.6.22 (Fedora Core 6) (87%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).

OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results
at http://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 19.44 seconds

Regards,
Tyler

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