Linux Netwosix Announcement Release - Release 1.2 Jinko

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Linux Netwosix Announcement Release                               Italy
Release 1.2 - 28 November 2004
Codename -> Jinko
<http://www.netwosix.org>>                            by Vincenzo Ciaglia
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The NETWOSIX Linux distribution (v. 1.2) is now available.

What's Netwosix ?
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Linux Netwosix is a powerful and optimized Linux distribution for servers and
Network Security related
jobs.  It can also be used for special operations such as penetration testing
with its big collection
of security oriented software and sources. It's a light distribution created
for the requirements of
every SysAdmin and it's very portable and highly configurable. Our philosophy
is to give greater
liberty for  configuration to the SysAdmin. Only in this way can he/she
configure a powerful and
stable server machine. Linux Netwosix also has a powerful ports system
(Nepote) similar to the
xBSD systems but more flexible and usable.

Features
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The system has been completely rebuilt, now assures a high security for your
network.
Linux Netwosix 1.2 resolves all the critical problems discovered into releases
1.0 and 1.1
and now could be considered like one of the most important distribution in
this field thanks to its
lightweight and clear structure and now it's more configurable and secure.

Some features:

- - New SETUP method
- - New HOWTO
- - All packages upgraded to latest and fixed versions.
- - Very very light iso image fast to download and install (~224MB).
- - It runs Linux Kernel 2.6.9.
- - System binaries linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.3.3.
- - Iptables 1.2.9.
- - GCC 3.3.3 as the default C compiler.
- - It runs "nepote" as default Porting Tool (updated with the new packages).
- - Perl 5.8.4 as perl compiler.

The new system is 224 MB and "Xfree86" is optional.

Additionl Features
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- - Support for fully encrypted network connections with OpenSSL (this version
is without bugs),
  OpenSSH, and GnuPG.
- - Apache 2.0.52 web server and PHP 4.3.4
- - The latest version of SAMBA
- - The updated version of Mutt, the mail client
- - Zebra 0.94, the free routing software distributed under GNU GPL.
- - Support for Proftp 1.2.10
- - Wireless tools (wireless_tools27)
- - Many more improved and upgraded packages than we can list here.  For
  a complete list of core packages in Linux Netwosix 1.2, see this page:

        http://www.netwosix.org/packages.html

Download CD Image
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The complete list of all the mirror is available from our Download Center at:
http://download.netwosix.org

Virtual Community
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- - The IRC official channel of Linux Netwosix is available at:
  irc.freenode.net - #netwosix
- - The official Mailing Lists are available at:
  http://www.netwosix.org/mailing.html
- - Linux Netwosix Bugzilla
  http://www.netwosix.org/bugzilla/
- - Internetworking@netwosix.org
  http://internetworking.netwosix.org

Further developments
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We're planning to develop a new branch of our project: 2.x. Here we will
introduce more graphics environments like setup and configuration scripts to
help not expert users to use in the best way possible our distro.
However we'll continue to parallel release other versions under the branch
1.x.
We're always open to possible collaborations. We want to improve our team.
If you want to help us, write to Vincenzo.

Acknowledgements
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Thanks to all the peoples who believed in this project.
Thanks to all the peoples and companies that hosted the iso images.
Thanks to everybody @ Netwosix Team

CD Image Checksum
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MD5 (netwosix1.2.x86.iso) = aee39f919e1db016ace169c9d1d9c57f


Happy hacking with Linux Netwosix!
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Vincenzo Ciaglia - Project Leader of Linux Netwosix
<ciaglia@netwosix.org> - <http://www.netwosix.org>>
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Vincenzo Ciaglia
Linux Netwosix Team <http://www.netwosix.org>>
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