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Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. It has a Windows-like graphical user interface and many programs similar to those found in Windows. Zorin OS also comes with an application that lets users run many Windows programs. The distribution's ultimate goal is to provide a Linux alternative to Windows and let Windows users enjoy all the features of Linux without complications.
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2004-01-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 1.2 |
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This is a new version of Gibraltar Firewall. From the changelog: "Version 1.2, published 2004-01-20. This is a usability release, targeting many small enhancements for the web interface. The base system has not changed, users of the free version thus do not need to update. Added the possibility to delete multiple entries in element groups. Added the possibility to move rules from one line to a dedicated line number in the Firewall and NAT modules. Added the information of the current track in the form for creating a new rule (Firewall and NAT module)...." Download: gibraltar-1.2.iso.bz2 (138MB).
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About Gibraltar
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Gibraltar is a Debian-based firewall package which is bootable directly from a CD-ROM, so hard disk installation is not necessary. The configuration data is optionally stored on a hard disk, floppy disk or USB storage device. Gibraltar was specifically developed for small to medium-size enterprises and fulfils all demands for an up-to-date firewall package. In times where the threats of viruses, worms, trojan horses or hackers are increasing rapidly, Gibraltar offers an extensive protection of internet connections. Besides a commercial release of Gibraltar a free edition is also available.
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2010-02-06 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 3.0 |
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Rene Mayrhofer has announced the release of Gibraltar Firewall 3.0, a major new version of the Debian-based firewall distribution: "This is a major new release, updating into kernel 2.6 and Debian 5.0 'Lenny' as base system and splitting the web interface into front-end and back-end parts in preparation of centralized management tools. Full support for IPv6, in both routing, firewall rules, and application level proxies/daemons, including automatic 6to4 and static 6in4 tunnels. Adding globally reachable IPv6 addresses to a local network is now a simple procedure by simply enabling an automatic 6to4 tunnel with almost no manual configuration. Policy routing setup via web interface with support for multiple default-routes in fail-over as well as load-balancing configurations." Read the detailed changelog for a full list of changes and new features. Download: gibraltar-3.0.iso (493MB, SHA1).
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2008-07-17 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 2.6 |
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Rene Mayrhofer announced the release of Gibraltar Firewall 2.6, a Debian-based firewall distribution: "We are pleased to announce Gibraltar release 2.6. It will be the last version based on kernel 2.4, the next Gibraltar release 3.0 will use kernel 2.6. Major new features in this release include official support for "Snort" as intrusion detection system and full integration of the Puresight Enterprise variant for advanced user-based authorization and reporting. Additionally, this release: now allows SSL Explorer (TM) plugins to be installed; substantially improves traffic shaping performance; supports transparent virus scanning for HTTP, POP3, and FTP even without a harddisk; and includes the beginning of full WLAN access point functionality. At this time, Atheros-based cards are supported and can be configured via the web interface. Future releases will expand on this to e.g. include full 802.1x support." Read the full release announcement and changelog. Download: gibraltar-2.6.iso.bz2 (260MB, SHA1).
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2007-09-10 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 2.5 |
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Rene Mayrhofer has announced the release of Gibraltar Firewall 2.5, a Debian-based firewall distribution: "It is our pleasure to announce the release of Gibraltar version 2.5. After over a year of intensive evaluation, development, and testing, this is our best release so far. This release introduces major new features: web filtering based on dynamic content inspection in addition to the usual blacklist-based approach; SSL-VPN - an HTTPS portal to Intranet services with the SSL Explorer community edition and some of its extensions; captive portal, e.g. for WLAN hotspots, based on Chillispot; an OpenVPN module in the web administration interface; a unified user management based on OpenLDAP and FreeRADIUS, user authentication for the HTTP proxy, SMTP, IPSec user certificates, IPSec/L2TP, PPTP, OpenVPN, and the captive portal is now done via a single user database." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed explanation about the new features. Download: gibraltar-2.5.iso.bz2 (254MB, SHA1).
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2006-08-30 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 2.4.1 |
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A new stable version of the Debian-based Gibraltar Firewall has been released: "The new version v2.4 from Gibraltar is available. Gibraltar v2.4 comes with many new features and now also available pre-installed on several reliable hardware platforms. The new Gibraltar Security Gateways are offered with different performance data for network sizes up to several hundred computers. Due to permanent product enhancements during the last years, Gibraltar has been evolved from a pure Firewall to a powerful and reliable UTM appliance (universal threat management)." Read the full release announcement and check out the changelog for a full list of changes and new features. Download: gibraltar-2.4.1.iso.bz2 (235MB, SHA1).
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2005-08-23 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 2.3 |
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Gibraltar Firewall 2.3 has been released. From the changelog: "This is a feature release with two major new features now being fully supported by the web interface: briding (a.k.a. as transparent firewalling) and traffic shaping. Both can be enabled with the respective modules in the web interface. Other changes in the web interface include a quick configuration save link, new service definitions that can now span different protocols (e.g. an IPSec service that include UDP, ESP and AH), the possibility to configure an email relay (e.g. a smart host by the ISP), and some enhancements when integrating a hard disk drive for /var." Download: gibraltar-2.3.iso.bz2 (190MB, MD5).
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2005-04-07 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 2.2 |
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Gibraltar Firewall has been updated to version 2.2. From the changelog: "This is the 'speed' release, improving the speed of the web interface significantly and also solving a previous issue with license checks on high-volume systems. Updated kernel to 2.4.30-rc4 (which has been released as 2.4.30 with no changes) with the usual patches. New features: arptables, tcp-window-tracking, tproxy, GeoIP and Unionfs modules (now for testing, they might get used in a future release). This release also adds the ndiswrapper and rt2400 modules. Replaced FreeS/WAN by Openswan. This also needs the ipsec-tools package...." Download: gibraltar-2.2.iso.bz2 (175MB).
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2004-11-17 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 2.1 |
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Gibraltar Firewall 2.1 has been released: "As from now the new version 2.1 of the security solution 'Gibraltar Firewall' is available. Besides some significant improvements in Gibraltar's spam filter, the main focuses of enhancements were the advancement of the web interface usability and the stabilization and extension of some basis functions. The most important enhancements: improved spam filter; SMTP authentication; black and white lists for mail checking; more concise representation of firewall rules; support of different WLAN adapters by a new kernel; SPF support in the mail server (for recognition of counterfeited e-mail addresses); support of SMTP-TLS...." Here is the full release announcement and changelog. The Debian-based firewall can be obtained from the Gibraltar online store (starting at €350); alternatively, a trial edition and a "reduced functionality" edition for non-commercial use can be downloaded at no charge: gibraltar-2.1.iso.bz2 (172MB).
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2004-06-05 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 2.0 |
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The Debian-based Gibraltar Firewall 2.0 has been released. From the changelog: "Version 2.0, published 2004-06-04. Many changes in the web interface: new configuration modules, enhanced usability and new features in existing modules. It also has a new license format, but version 1 licenses are still accepted. Updated kernel to version 2.4.26. This is quite similar to the 2.4.23 version of Gibraltar 1.x, but the security patches from 2.4.24 were applied, fixing the mremap vulnerability. Supply kernel modules for the Conexant ADSL USB modem..." Download: gibraltar-2.0.iso.bz2 (165MB).
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2003-12-23 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 1.1 |
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A new version of the Debian-based Gibraltar Firewall has been released. From the changelog: "Version 1.1, published 2003-12-23. This is the Christmas release, with only a few new features, but being a lot more resistant against buffer overflows and thus more secure due to the use of the PAX kernel patch. Updated the kernel to 2.4.23, which fixed the recently discovered brk() vulnerability. In addition to the update, the context patch (for virtual servers), the PAX patch and support for the zorp transparent proxy suite were added. Minor additions are an AES optimization and cryptoloop." Read the rest of the changelog for full details. Download: (137MB).
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2003-11-10 |
Distribution Release: Gibraltar 1.0 |
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As previously announced, the Debian-based Gibraltar Firewall project has released its first stable version, 1.0: "After several months of intensive development we are very proud to announce release 1.0 of Gibraltar Firewall. The commercial version of Gibraltar now comes with a user-friendly and comfortable web based configuration tool called GibADMIN. GibADMIN supports many features of the free version of Gibraltar and makes administration a piece of cake. See a detailed feature list here." Read the rest of the announcement. A commercial of Gibraltar Firewall edition costs €990, but a GPL edition with disabled GibADMIN can be downloaded freely from one of the mirror sites: gibraltar-1.0.iso.bz2 (137MB). A 30-day evaluation license can be obtained by registering the product. Find more information on the distribution's web site.
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2003-10-25 |
Development Release: Gibraltar 0.99.8a |
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The Gibraltar project has released a bug fix update to their earlier version: "This minor update mostly solves the problem with syslog by switching back to old-style syslogd and klogd for the time being. Remove syslog-ng again in favor of sysklogd. syslog-ng still has some problems. However, the changes in the default logging configuration are kept and have been ported back to the old configuration file format. Only /var/log/syslog and /var/log/debug are now used by default, and they are rotated by size to keep /var from filling up. NAT Traversal for IPSec now works again due to kernel and freeswan patching." More in the changelog. Download: gibraltar-0.99.8a.iso.bz2 (107MB).
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2003-10-06 |
Development Release: Gibraltar 0.99.8 |
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A new development version of the Debian-based Gibraltar Firewall has been released. From the changelog: "This is a major update with some new features, but mostly default configuration updates. Updated to kernel 2.4.22, which again fixes some security issues and has some new features too: it already has the crypto patch and Alcatel USB speedtouch support (thus the Gibraltar-specific patches for these two features are no longer needed). The netfilter code has been updated to 2.4.23-preX, because it has some optimizations for ICMP floods, and the patch for tuning connection tracking parameters is back in." See the rest of the changelog. Download: gibraltar-0.99.8.iso.bz2 (105MB).
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2003-04-16 |
Development Release: Gibraltar 0.99.7 |
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Gibraltar 0.99.7, a Debian-based Linux firewall, has been released: "This is a feature and bug-fix release at the same time. Due to fixing of the kernel security issue (information leak), it is recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. Changes: Recompiled the kernel with many patches, now fixing the recently discovered information leak in multiple Ethernet card modules and the ptrace vulnerability. The new kernel is also patched with newer wireless extensions for better WLAN access point functionality." Read the rest of the long changelog here. Download: gibraltar-0.99.7.iso.bz2 (111MB).
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2003-01-13 |
Development Release: Gibraltar 0.99.6 |
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A new development version of Gibraltar, the Debian-based Linux router/firewall, is out. From the 0.99.6 changelog: "This is mainly a bugfix release to fix the problems with automatic configuration update in version 0.99.5 The main change is to increase the default value for the maximum /etc ramdisk size to allow the update to finish. Additionally, a few more sanity and validity checks are done in the maintenance scripts." You can read the complete changelog here, find out more about the project on Gibraltar's web site and download the latest release from here: gibraltar-0.99.6.iso.bz2 (106MB) or from one of the mirrors.
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2002-09-30 |
Development Release: Gibraltar 0.99.5 |
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The Debian-based Gibraltar firewall has received an update - version 0.99.5 has been released: "This release updates Gibraltar to the final, released Debian 3.0 base packages. It contains some new functionality (e.g. full wireless LAN support) and also fixes some bugs." The changelog has all the details while the product's feature page provides more general information. Download it here: gibraltar-0.99.5.iso.bz2 (120MB).
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