Archive for February, 2008
“trixbox®, spelled with a lowercase ‘t’, is a line of Asterisk®-based IP-PBX products designed to meet the needs of companies from 2 to 500 employees. trixbox comes in two flavors: the open-source community edition and a hybrid-hosted, commercially-proven solution.” Like other distros in its category, trixbox is a Linux distro with Asterisk® pre-installed, and [...]
Vyatta is an enterprise-class Linux-based open-source router and firewall. “Vyatta solutions combine the features, performance, and reliability of an enterprise router and firewall with the cost savings, flexibility, and security of open source to introduce new levels of economics, choice, and control into the network.”
Gibraltar was founded as an open source project in 1999 by Dr. Rene Mayrhofer. Since that time, Gibraltar has been used by over 5.000 companies, organizations, public facilities, private users, schools and universities. Through permanent product development and significant participation of the open source community, Gibraltar has been evolved to one of the leading [...]
Lunar is a source based Linux distribution developed by a very talented team of programmers from all over the world, working together to extend the Linux technology into better-tailored and more optimized software for the end user. Lunar uses and builds upon the Linux kernel, and offers a unique package management system which builds [...]
“Devil-Linux is a distribution which boots and runs completely from CDROM. The configuration can be saved to a floppy diskette or a USB pen drive. Devil Linux was originally intended to be a dedicated firewall/router but now Devil-Linux can also be used as a server for many applications. Attaching an optional hard drive is [...]
Astaro Security Gateway is a Linux-based distro for protecting computer networks. It is one of the very first security products based on Linux. It “integrates complete Network, Web and Mail Security through an intuitive browser-based user interface”.
IPCop Linux is a complete Linux Distribution designed for protecting home and SOHO (Small Office Home Office) networks. It is completely free and Open Source, and easily extendable with addons.
EnGarde Secure Linux is a multi functional, open source Internet security operating platform. It comes with all the tools needed create a secure online presence.
“Endian Firewall Community is a Linux network security operating system designed for personal use, but with many advanced features. It provides the option to install a XenU kernel for those with virtualization-capable hardware
LiMo Foundation, a consortium dedicated to creating open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, has announced that the LiMo Platform (their equivalent of the Android platform) will be released on schedule in March, 2008, along with the application programming interface (API) specifications.
The Untangle Gateway Platform is a network security distro based on Knoppix. It is intended to be run from a hard drive, with application packages installed only if the function(s) enabled by any package is needed.
SmoothWall Express is a Linux-based network firewall distro designed for home and small business use. The SmoothWall project was founded in the summer of 2000 by Lawrence Manning (Principle Code Author) and Richard Morrell (Project Manager). With SmoothWall Express, you can convert a redundant PC into a hardened internet firewall device.
