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

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

After retiring from corporate IT a few years ago, I haven't had a need for
a fancy firewall or VPN.  My wireless router does the job for my home
network.

However, if I did have the need I would probably build my own from a
regular Linux distro.

I'd also look closely at OpenBSD (if they are still active) to use instead
of Linux since they are one of the few distro's I'm aware of that focuses
on security.  Another upside is there aren't as many vulnerabilities for
BSD systems since they're not as popular.  The downside is I'm not that
familiar with BSD.

And of course, there are always the commercial options for corporate
networks.  Cisco ASA, etc.

 - BS


On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote:

> 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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>>>   Heiko Zuerker
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>
> Regards
>   Heiko Zuerker
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