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ClosedBSD 1.0b Released

Posted by timothy on from the minimalism dept.

An unnamed reader submits: "Joshua Bergeron released ClosedBSD 1.0B today. ClosedBSD is a firewall which boots off of a single floppy diskette, and requires no hard drive. It is based off of the FreeBSD kernel, and uses ipfw as it's native ruleset manager. Best of all: it is freely available under the BSD License. ClosedBSD also features an advanced curses based configuration utility for designing and managing firewall rulesets: Screenshots available.

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  1. Re:Reduplication of efforts by cetan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, do we really need 31 flavors of Linux? :)

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  2. Re:Why... by TurboRoot · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure it is nice, I just can't find a floppy drive to boot it off of.

  3. Re:Why... by Electrum · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess the name is ClosedBSD, because it closes the doors/ports for bad guys such as hackers ... what a firewall is supposed to do. The name is basically an allusion to security ...

    I have it on good word that the name is a poke at the OpenBSD guys.