Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] No more new releases

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Dietmar,

I have not found an alternative yet for myself either, but have to admit I
haven't looked very hard either.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Dietmar Rieder <die...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi Heiko,
>
> first of all many many Thanks for all your effort and support !
>
> It's really sad to hear that you have to stop to maintain DL, which we run
> since more than 15 years now on our fw and vpn.
> I hate the idea of having to change our setup, it was one of our most
> reliable and easy to run systems over all these years :-(
> However, times move on and I fully understand that at some point time gets
> an issue.
>
> It seems that we'll have to start looking for an alternative.
> Until now I didn't even bother about alternatives, since there was simply
> no need for such, never...
> Is there something that you or someone on this list can recommend?
> I mainly "need" the CD/DVD (system) + USB (config) combination including
> shorewall, dhcrelay, openvpn, rsyslog
>
> Thanks again
>   Dietmar
>
> 2018-01-07 17:41 GMT+01:00 Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>:
>
>> Bruce,
>>
>> Yes it was no easy decision, but I finally just had to admit it to myself.
>>
>> Many thanks to you too. Without your help DL would never have gotten this
>> far.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Bruce Smith <bw...@re...> wrote:
>>
>>> Heiko,
>>>
>>> Thank you for all of your hard work over the years!!!
>>>
>>> I guess it's true that all good things must come to and end.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 6:24 AM, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, after almost 20 years, I have to officially stop
>>>> releasing new versions of Devil-Linux. I simply do not have the time
>>>> anymore to do this properly. This is in addition to GRSecurity not being
>>>> available anymore to the general public, which was the core of our security
>>>> features. It has been a blast maintaining this distro and we had a lot of
>>>> long-term followers, for which I am very grateful.
>>>> All current downloads and the sources will of course stay on the
>>>> websites.
>>>> If anybody wants to pick up where I left off, please feel free to reach
>>>> out so that we can transfer all the responsibilities.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>   Heiko Zuerker
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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>>
>> Regards
>>   Heiko Zuerker
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