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

[John B. <sag...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

The Alpine documentation mentions doing customization by using
writable storage, as distinct from
the loopback device.  I confess it has been a long time since I used
Devil, although I will be
installing it up again tonight. I do remember Devil was specifically
designed to allow you to customize
the CD, so you don't need any separate media. To me this is far more
elegant. How much
effort is required to maintain DL? I certainly am not asking to step in now,
but I will with it and may later post updates. I absolutely love the elegance.
I'm now again highly interested in security. Many years ago, I
enhanced a firewall program, and put it on my DL cd.

Yes, Again, Thanks to everyone and Heiko especially!

Chip


On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Roland Pabel <rp...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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>> >
>> >   Heiko Zuerker
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