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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. Go away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blah_foo_and_so_forth and_a_bit_more following_on_fr om_where_we_were_at

    Torvalds: The original plan was to try to aim for a nine-month productization

    cycle, and part of the reason for that was that I expected the changes for

    2.4.x to be much smaller than they ended up being. My original main goal was

    to clean up the SMP scalability to four CPUs, and it kind of grew into a major

    file-system redesign. That said, everybody knew the nine-month goal was

    unrealistic. But it was kind of "if we don't have anything to shoot for, we

    certainly won't hit it." I was hoping we could get it down to a year or so.

  2. Re:*BSD is dying by elzbal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man, do I hate these trolls. BSD has a much bigger installed base on the Desktop than all Linux distributions combined. Just take a look at http://www.apple.com And let's stop it with these stupid flames.