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m0n0wall was a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). m0n0wall was based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server (thttpd), PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration was stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent. m0n0wall was probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configuration done with PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in XML format.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2018-10-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.21 Core 124 |
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IPFire is a Linux distribution for firewalls which offers a range of security tools and is designed to be easy to set up. The distribution's developers have released IPFire 2.21 Core Update 124 that features kernel and network hardening for improved security. "We have updated the Linux kernel to version 4.14.72 which comes with a large number of bug fixes, especially for network adapters. It has also been hardened against various attack vectors by enabling and testing built-in kernel security features that prohibit access to privileged memory by unprivileged users and similar mechanisms. Due to this, the update requires a reboot after it has been installed. Peter has contributed a number of patches that improve security of the SSH daemon running inside IPFire. For those, who have SSH access enabled, it will now require latest ciphers and key exchange algorithms that make the key handshake and connection not only more secure, but also faster when transferring data. For those admins who use the console: The SSH client has also been enabled to show a graphic representation of the SSH key presented by the server so that comparing those is easier and man-in-the-middle attacks can be spotted quickly and easily." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA1): ipfire-2.21.x86_64-full-core124.iso (240MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-10-15 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 785 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Reborn OS 2018.09.09 and Nitrux 1.0.15
- News: feren OS experiments with Plasma edition, Linux kernel patch may offer 20% power savings, Linux-based firmware
- Questions and answers: Reasons to try BSD, swapping hard drives
- Released last week: Proxmox 5.1 "Mail Gateway", UBports 16.04 OTA-5, MidnightBSD 1.0
- Torrent corner: ArcoLinux, Clonezilla, KaOS, Kodachi, MakuluLinux, MidnightBSD, Obarun, Omarine, OSMC, Raspbian, Robolinux, SmartOS
- Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 18.10, FreeBSD-12.0-BETA1
- Opinion poll: Linux user groups (LUGs)
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2018-10-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: KaOS 2018.10 |
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KaOS is a rolling-release, desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the KDE desktop environment. The project's newest snapshot, KaOS 2018.10, features KDE Plasma 5.14.0 and offers improvements to Croeso, a welcome screen that helps customise the operating system when the user first logs in. "Plasma 5.14.0 was announced just a few days ago and is already included in this ISO image. Highlights of this version include a new Display Configuration widget for screen management which is useful for presentations, the Audio Volume widget now has a built-in speaker test feature moved from Phonon settings, Plasma now warns on logout when other users are logged in, fixed non-centered task switchers on Wayland and the Kickoff application menu now switches tabs instantly on hover. A new glibc 2.27/GCC 7.3.1 based toolchain is among the many changes to the base of the system. Updates to Boost, ICU, x265, Protobuf, Net-SNMP, Qt required the rebuild of a large percentage of the KaOS repositories." The release announcement mentions that Qt 4 has been dropped from the KaOS repositories. Download (SHA256): KaOS-2018.10-x86_64.iso (1,942MB, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2018-10-12 |
NEW • BSD Release: MidnightBSD 1.0 |
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Lucas Holt has announced the availability of MidnightBSD 1.0, a new stable release of the project's FreeBSD-derived operating system with a goal to create an easy-to-use desktop environment with graphical ports management and system configuration: "I'm happy to announce the availability of MidnightBSD 1.0 for amd64 and i386. Over the years, many ambitious goals were set for our 1.0 release. As it approached, it was clear we wouldn't be able to accomplish all of them. This release is more of a natural progression rather than a groundbreaking event. It includes many updates to the base system, improvements to the package manager, an updated compiler and tools. Of particular note, you can now boot off of ZFS and use NVME SSDs and some AMD Radeon graphics cards support acceleration. AMD Ryzen support has greatly improved in this release. We also have added bhyve from FreeBSD. The single largest removal of functionality was the sensors framework. We found that there were some locking issues that couldn't easily be addressed without some major work. Sudo was removed from the base system and replaced with doas(1) from OpenBSD." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download (SHA256, pkglist): amd64/1.0/disc1.iso (627MB), amd64/1.0/uefi-disc1.iso (630MB), amd64/1.0/memstick.img (669MB), amd64/1.0/uefi-memstick.img (670MB). Images for the i386 architecture are also available. |
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| 2018-10-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: UBports 16.04 OTA-5 |
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The UBports project maintains a community-developed continuation of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch operating system for mobile devices. The UBports team has published a new update, based on Ubuntu 16.04. The new release, UBports 16.04 OTA-5, includes several bug and stability improvements. The update also features a new web browser. "The old Oxide web engine 'Browser' app is being replaced by our new QtWebEngine browser, Morph (formerly known as browser-ng). 'Morphing' the browser to QtWebEngine means that the code will have upstream benefits from the Qt company, and it uses a more recent version of the Chromium engine as its base. This should resolve a number of browser issues, and make use of new scaling features. Morph Browser takes advantage of Qt Automatic Scaling, so that the websites you visit look the way that they are supposed to no matter what form factor you are using.
Since Ubuntu Touch currently runs on both mobile phones and tablets (and possibly more devices down the road) it's important that things display at appropriate sizes. Qt Automatic Scaling will allow developers to write apps using the Qt Quick Controls 2 and they will display at an optimal size for the form factor. Kirigami 2 widgets will also be able to take advantage of this feature." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. A list of supported devices and installation instructions can be found on the project's Devices page. |
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| 2018-10-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Proxmox 5.1 "Mail Gateway" |
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Proxmox is a commercial company which offers specialized products based on Debian. The company recently launched Proxmox Mail Gateway version 5.1 based on Debian 9 "Stretch". "Proxmox Mail Gateway 5.1 comes with Debian security updates, new features, bug fixes, and GUI improvements: The new Transport Layer Security (TLS) policy provides certificate-based authentication and encrypted sessions. Users can now set a different TLS policy per destination domain, in case they need to prevent e-mail delivery without encryption, or to work around a broken STARTTLS ESMTP implementation. Configuration of the TLS policy can be done via GUI. TLS is also possible on internal SMTP port/traffic. The updated user management now allows a new help desk role enabling help desk staff to access the quarantine. Proxmox Mail Gateway 5.1 supports SMTPUTF8. This will fix the problem with some non delivered Google mails. Smarthost ports: Editing and showing smarthost port is possible. On the web-based user interface, the Proxmox developers improved the Spam Quarantine section adding keyboard shortcuts (for Whitelist, Blacklist, Deliver, and Delete)...." Further information can be found in the company's press release. Proxmox 5.1 "Mail Gateway" can be downloaded from the company's downloads page. |
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| 2018-10-09 |
NEW • Development Release: VyOS 1.2.0 RC1 |
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Daniil Baturin has announced the availability of the first release candidate for VyOS 1.2.0, a Debian-based distribution for firewalls and routers launched in 2013 as a fork of the abandoned Vyatta distribution. The new version is still based on Debian 8 "Jessie" and is available for 64-bit systems only: "First VyOS 1.2.0 release candidate is available for download. VyOS 1.2.0 'Crux' is the feature expansion release based on Debian 'Jessie'. The release candidate will be the basis for the future long-term support release. New features include: Wireguard support; PPPoE server; mDNS repeater and broadcast relay; support for IPv6 VRRP and unicast VRRP operation; NPTv6; standards-compliant QinQ ethertype option; Python APIs for accessing the running config and writing migration scripts (replacements of the Perl Vyatta::Config and XorpConfigParser); new XML-based command definitions; new build system that makes it easy to create custom builds with additional repositories and packages; SR-IOV support for Intel and Mellanox cards." See the release announcement and the release notes for more information. Interested testers can download the new release from here: vyos-1.2.0-rc1-amd64.iso (357MB, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2018-10-08 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 784 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Hamara 2.1
- News: Fedora testers talk about proposed suspend behaviour, UBports gains VoIP app, Debian's roadmap to Buster
- Questions and answers: Improving manual pages, advantages of Flatpak/Snap
- Released last week: Linux Kodachi 4.0, antiX 17.2, Mageia 6.1, NixOS 18.09
- Torrent corner: 4MLinux, Antergos, antiX, Archman, Artix, AUSTRUMI, Calculate, Emmabuntus, ExTiX, Kodachi, Mageia, NixOS, SwagArch, Tails
- Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 18.10 Release Candidate, FreeBSD 12.0-BETA1
- Opinion poll: Region-specific distributions
- New distributions: Minitena
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2018-10-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Emmabuntüs DE2-1.03 |
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Emmabuntüs is a desktop Linux distribution designed to be user friendly and to work well on older computers. The distribution's latest release, Emmabuntüs DE2-1.03, is based on Debian 9. The new version includes Flatpak support, a Steam installation script (for the 64-bit build) and several fixes. The release announcement lists the following changes: "Added welcome and tools windows; added new and more compact post-installation dialog windows; added software installation management in Flatpak format; added control script optimizing the swap usage; added Steam installation script, only available in the 64-bit edition; added PDF-Shuffler, gscan2pdf; added screen lock app for LXDE; added shortcuts to user folders; added Bluetooth activation management, if the adapter is present; added automatic swap activation in live mode; added mounting of hard disks or internal partitions without password request; improved desktop integration; improved wallpaper management when starting Xfce; fixed Chromium icon; fixed Whisker menu; fixed links to the user directory in Cairo Dock configuration files; fixed non-functional Thunar shortcuts...." Download: emmabuntus-de2-amd64-stretch-1.03.iso (3,704MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-10-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Calculate Linux 18 |
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Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the release of Calculate Linux 18, a major update of the project's Gentoo-based, rolling-release distribution set available for both x86_64 and i686 systems, in several desktop variants. This release features the very latest 4.18 Linux kernel and the much improved Calculate utilities and installation tool which have all been ported to Qt 5. From the release announcement: "We are happy to announce the release of Calculate Linux 18. In this latest version, Calculate Utilities have been ported to Qt 5, your network is managed in a different way, and binary packages get checked using their index signature. Changes: the graphical installation interface has been ported to Qt 5; the command line installation interface now features auto partition detection based on passed options; it is possible to select a keyboard layout; it is possible to use only one (root) position; easier installation on VPS/VDS; live USB image boots up faster; NVIDIA driver installation log is sent to tty12 at live USB boot-up time; Calculate provides 12,363 binary packages; our approach to network configuration changed - network parameters are not updated while installing network management tools...." Download links (MD5, pkglist): cld-18-x86_64.iso (KDE Plasma, 2,142MB, torrent), cldc-18-x86_64.iso (Cinnamon, 2,012MB, torrent), cldm-18-x86_64.iso (MATE, 2,071MB, torrent), cldx-18-x86_64.iso (Xfce, 1,929MB, torrent). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2018-10-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ExTiX 18.10 |
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ExTiX is an Ubuntu-based distribution which replaces the default GNOME desktop with LXQt and makes further interface and kernel customisations. The project's latest release, ExTiX 18.10, is based on the development release of Ubuntu 18.10. "ExTiX 18.10 LXQt DVD 64-bit is based on Debian and the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' (to be released on 2018-10-18). The original system includes the GNOME desktop environment. After removing GNOME, I have installed LXQt 0.13.0. LXQt is the Qt port of the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment. Note: this ExTiX LXQt build is for installation to non-UEFI-enabled computers and VirtualBox or VMware. The system language is English. Used kernel - my special kernel 4.18.12-exton, corresponding to kernel.org's latest stable kernel 4.18.12. Firefox has replaced Google Chrome as the web browser; it's now possible to watch Netflix movies in Firefox (while running Linux). I have replaced Ubuntu's Ubiquity installer with Calamares. Other included packages are LibreOffice, Thunderbird, GParted, Brasero, SMPlayer, GCC and other compilation tools so that you can install packages from source." Further details can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download (MD5): extix-18.10-64bit-non-efi-lxqt-refracta-calamares-1910mb-181006.iso (1,910MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-10-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: NixOS 18.09 |
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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of system configuration management through the Nix package manager. The project has released a new version, NixOS 18.09, which carries the code name "Jellyfish" and will be supported through to April of 2019. "In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following notable updates: end of support is planned for end of April 2019, handing over to 19.03. Platform support: x86_64-linux and x86_64-darwin. Support for aarch64-linux is as with the previous releases, not equivalent to the x86-64-linux release, but with efforts to reach parity. Nix has been updated to 2.1; see its release notes. Core versions: Linux kernel 4.14 LTS (unchanged), glibc 2.27, GCC 7 (unchanged), systemd 239. Desktop version changes: GNOME: 3.28, KDE Plasma 5.13. Notable changes and additions for 18.09 include support for wrapping binaries using Firejail has been added; user channels are now in the default NIX_PATH, allowing users to use their personal nix-channel defined channels in nix-build and nix-shell commands, as well as in imports like import...." Further details can be found in the project's release notes. Download (pkglist): nixos-18.09.776.6a3f5bcb061/nixos-graphical-18.09.776.6a3f5bcb061-x86_64-linux.iso (1,095MB, SHA256, torrent), nixos-18.09.776.6a3f5bcb061/nixos-minimal-18.09.776.6a3f5bcb061-x86_64-linux.iso (516MB, SHA256). Also available from OSDisc. |
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3CX Phone System is a specialist, Debian-based Linux distribution designed to run a complete unified communications platform. The 3CX client, included in the distribution, can also be installed separately on most hardware as well as the cloud. It provides a complete open standards-based IP PBX and phone system that works with popular SIP trunks and IP phones. It will automatically configure all supported peripherals and it also comes with clients for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The ISO image includes a free license for the 3CX PBX edition. The ISO image contains the standard Debian installer which installs a minimal system with the nginx web server, PostgreSQL database, iptables firewall and Secure Shell. Options not relevant to 3CX have been removed form the distribution. Download the installation ISO image from here: debian-9.2.1-amd64-netinst-3cx.iso (324MB). |
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