FreeS/WAN Continues As Openswan

Posted by timothy on Monday March 22, 2004 @10:21PM from the duckling-of-indeterminate-pulchritude dept.

leto writes "It seems some of the developers and volunteers of the (recently deceased) FreeS/WAN project have started a new company to develop and support the successor of the Linux IPsec code under the name of Openswan in a "Cygnus style" business model. They announced the new version at CeBIT which fully supports the new Linux 2.6 native IPsec stack. According to the Openswan website, it was started 'by a few of the developers who were growing frustrated with the politics surrounding the FreeS/WAN project.' There is a FAQ that explains how the various parts of IPsec on Linux work together. I guess that means US citizens can finally submit patches, and that distributions like RedHat/Fedora can now include it in their distribution. FreeS/WAN has always had the most features and most the most user-friendly configuration. It is good to see that will continue. And their mailing list finally seems to refuse spam too."

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Plz Mod Parent DOWN by bangular · 2004-03-23 00:25 · Score: 0, Troll

I don't know how a post that has a pic of a man about to eat another mans ass with a giant fork got modded up. This one has to go down in slashdot history. Nice use of debian redirect cgi though, I was actually expecting a debian package page.