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

[Dietmar R. <die...@gm...>]

Roland,

thanks a lot for the hint, AlpineLinux looks very interesting and seems to
be a good alternative to DL.
I'll give it a try...

Dietmar

2018-01-08 19:45 GMT+01:00 Roland Pabel <rp...@gm...>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm also very sorry to see DL go :-(  But I understand the dilemma. I too
> don't have the time any more to set up my fw from scratch (build own iso,
> etc), I need something that works out of the box (but still allows me to
> customize everything if needed).
>
> I've started to look around for a replacement and found Alpine Linux. It
> can
> also be run in a stateless mode with configuration on a writeable medium:
> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation
> I haven't been able to try it out yet, but it looks at least promising.
>
> Thanks to everyone and Heiko especially!
>
> Roland
>
>
>
> > 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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> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >   Heiko Zuerker
> > >
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