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| 2009-10-27 |
Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.3 |
| Christian Graffer has announced the release of Endian Firewall 2.3, a CentOS-based specialist distribution for firewalls and gateways: "Today I am proud to announce the release of version 2.3 of Endian Firewall Community. This release includes many features that were previously available only to users of the Enterprise edition, as well as some completely new features. These new features are: backups can now be stored to and recovered from attached USB mass storage devices; the main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about the system and its services; emails can be sent automatically for predefined events; it is possible to add time-based access control lists for the HTTP proxy; Snort rules can now be configured...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.3.iso (124MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-09-18 |
Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.3 RC1 |
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| The first release candidate for Endian Firewall 2.3, a specialist firewall distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, is now available for testing: "Today we are proud to announce the first release candidate of our Endian Firewall Community version 2.3. This release includes many features that were previously available only to users of the Enterprise edition as well as some completely new features. These features are: backups can now be stored to and recovered from attached USB mass storage devices; the main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about the system and its services as well as live-graphs for incoming and outgoing traffic; emails can be sent automatically for predefined events; with the new interface it is possible to add time-based access control lists for the HTTP proxy...." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.3-rc1.iso (123MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-07-26 |
Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 RC2 |
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| The second release candidate for Endian Firewall 2.2 "Community" edition, a firewall appliance based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, was announced: "The Endian Team is glad to announce the latest release candidate of Endian Firewall Community. RC2 contains many bug fixes since the previous release candidate. Endian Firewall Community is an all-in-one Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance. Designed with usability in mind, Endian developed a solution that is extremely flexible, easy to install and manage. The Community version has been warmly embraced by the open source community… This is a bugfix release, for the full change log see http://bugs.endian.it/changelog_page.php. Happy Testing!" Read the release announcement for further information. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-rc2-200807241531.iso (118MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-05-14 |
Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 RC1 |
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| Raphael Vallazza has announced the first release candidate for Endian Firewall 2.2 "Community" edition, a firewall appliance based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "The Endian team is glad to announce a new beta release of the Endian Firewall Community, with many bug fixes and enhancements. Highlights: enhanced management of WAN/RED connections (support for multiple uplinks, multiple IPs and networks on each WAN/RED interface in STATIC mode, uplink monitoring with automatic failover); Port forwarding (multiple uplink support, allowing different rules per uplink, port forwarding of traffic coming from VPN end points, option for rule-based logging); system access (external access has now been enhanced and renamed to system access, fine-grained management of permissions regarding access to the system from LAN, WAN, DMZ and VPN end points)...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-rc1-200805131128.iso (118MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-04-23 |
Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 Beta 4 |
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| Raphael Vallazza has announced the fourth beta of Endian Firewall 2.2, a firewall distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "The Endian Team is glad to announce a new beta release of the Endian Firewall Community, with many bug fixes and enhancements. Endian Firewall Community is an all-in-one Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance. Changes from 2.2 Beta 3: new enhanced GUI; added OpenVPN x.509 certificate and pre-shared key (PSK) support; added static IP address support for OpenVPN clients; added Source NAT support; 60+ bug fixes and other enhancements." Read the release announcement and changelog for additional information. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-beta4.iso (126MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-02-02 |
Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 Beta 3 |
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| Raphael Vallazza has announced the third beta release of Endian Firewall 2.2, a Red Hat-based firewall distribution: "The Endian team is glad to announce a new beta release of the Endian Firewall Community edition, with many bug fixes and enhancements. Changes from 2.2 Beta 2: New uplink control made with Javascript and JSON, enhances responsiveness on uplink status change, the user can now decide if uplink should be 'managed' automatically or manually; updated kernel to version 2.6.22.16, rebuilt with GCC 4.1.2 to solve some compiler related issues and added drivers that where missing in Beta 2; rebuilt packages for i586 instead of i686 to support embedded and older systems (VIA C3, AMD LX, etc.); 60+ bug fixes and other enhancements." Read the full release notes for further information. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-beta3-200802011745.iso (125MB, MD5). |
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| 2007-12-31 |
Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 Beta 2 |
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| Raphael Vallazza has announced the second beta release of Endian Firewall 2.2, a RHEL-based firewall with anti-virus/spam tools, content filters, SSL/TLS VPN, IDS, and other features: "The Endian Team is glad to announce a new release of the Endian Firewall Community version 2.2 Beta 2. Endian Firewall Community is an all-in-one Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance. Changes from 2.2 Beta 1: Updated kernel to version 2.6.22.15 (features a lot more drivers, better SATA, SCSI and NIC support); updated ClamAV to version 0.92; updated Openswan to version 2.4.11; updated Snort to 2.8.0.1; 55+ bug fixes and minor feature enhancements." Read the release announcement and changelog for a detailed list of changes. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-beta2-200712281931.iso (109MB, MD5). |
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| 2007-10-28 |
Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 Beta 1 |
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| A new development release of Endian Firewall is ready for download and testing: "The Endian Team is glad to announce a new release of the Endian Firewall Community version 2.2 Beta 1. Support for multiple WAN Connections, Zone Firewall for stealthy filtering of local traffic, time based HTTP access policies and OpenVPN X.509 support are just some of the brand new features. The result of over a year of development is an enhanced and polished Endian Firewall release, network security has never been so powerful and easy. Release Highlights: support for multiple uplinks; multiple IPs/networks on each WAN/RED interface in STATIC mode; uplink monitoring with automatic failover (ISP failover); uplink editor...." Read the release announcement for a complete list of changes and new features. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-beta1.iso (104MB, MD5). |
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| 2007-07-11 |
Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.1.2 |
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| A bugfix release of the Red Hat-based Endian Firewall is now available, with several minor yet significant new features: "The 2.1.2 is built up from the 2.1.1 version, fixing the SATA support system and allowing for a wizard after installation that asks to set up the passwords (root and administrator). In addition, this new release enables the possibility of restoring a backup directly after installation, and of blocking incoming connections coming through the VPN. Moreover, the Endian Firewall Community now includes a 1:1 NAT (for ALL port-forwarding protocol types) and provides added support for EFW as a XEN domU instance. Kernel, glibc, clamav and havp have all been upgraded, and the proxy authentication can now be bypassed for specific ip/mac addresses." More details in the release notes. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.1.2-200707101220.iso (112MB, MD5). |
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| 2007-01-02 |
Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.1 |
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| A new community release of Red Hat-based Endian Firewall is now available. What's new in version 2.1? "GUI: check boxes instead of multi-select select boxes within network wizard, SSL certificate will only be generated if the host or domain name is changed; VPN: OpenVPN server displays CA certificate, gives the possibility to configure port and protocol, allows to configure multiple networks per user; rewrite of backup service: each backup can be downloaded with a single click, user can decide what to include; other changes: merged in changes of R*EL, updated SpamAssassin, p3scan, ClamAV and fcron, solved problem of gaps within graphs, installation, restores and factory default stores meta-information about the used archive...." More details in the release notes. Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.1-200701010332.iso (107MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-07-13 |
Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.0 |
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| Endian Firewall 2.0 "Community" edition is out: "Endian Firewall 2 released! Endian Firewall is a 'turn-key' Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full-featured security appliance." From the release notes: "HTTP Antivirus now supports video/music streaming useragents, so HTTP virus scanning does not prohibit streaming; ClamAV anti-virus engine updated to the latest release, now configurable via web administration Interface; outgoing firewall enhancements; SMTP proxy now supports authentication against IMAP server...." Download: EFW_COMMUNITY_2.iso (98.4MB, MD5). |
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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