Linux Netwosix

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Linux Netwosix Announcement Release                               Italy
Release 1.0 - 31 January 2004
<http://www.netwosix.org>                            by Vincenzo Ciaglia
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The NETWOSIX Linux distribution (v. 1.0) 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 be also used for special operations as penetration test with its big
collection of software
and sources security oriented. It's a ligh distribution created for the
requirements of every SysAdmin
and it's very portable and highly configurable. Our philosophy is to give a
big liberty of configuration
to the SysAdmin. Only in this way he/she can configure a powerful and
stable server machine.
Linux Netwosix have also a powerful ports system (Nepote) similar to the
xBSD systems but more flexible and usable.

Features
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- It runs Linux Kernel 2.6.1. Linux Netwosix is the first distribution
  that uses this new and powerful kernel by default.
- System binaries linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.3.2.
- Printer server powered by CUPS 1.1.19.
- Duoble possibility of installation: from .tgz or from .tar.gz (for experts).
- Iptables 1.2.7a.
- GCC 3.3.2 as the default C compiler.
- It runs "nepote" as default Porting Tool. 
- Perl 5.8.2 as perl compiler.
- A big collection of tools security-oriented is localized into /netwosix/tools
  of the Official NETWOSIX Cdrom.

Additionl Features
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- XFree86 4.3.0
- Support for fully encrypted network connections with OpenSSL,
  OpenSSH, and GnuPG.
- Apache 2.0.48 web server and PHP 4.3.4
- Zebra 0.93, the free routing software distributed under GNU GPL.
- Support for Proftp 1.2.9 and Wu-FTP 2.6.2.
- Wireless tools (wireless_tools25)
- many others ....

Download CD Image (HTTP)
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http://download.netwosix.org/
http://ftp.man.olsztyn.pl/pub/linux/netwosix/
http://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/netwosix
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/mirrors/netwosix/pub/netwosix

Download CD Image (FTP)
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ftp://ftp.man.olsztyn.pl/pub/linux/netwosix/
ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/netwosix
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/mirrors/netwosix/pub/netwosix
ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/netwosix/

Download CD Image (RSYNC)
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rsync://rm.mirror.garr.it/netwosix

Special Thanks
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Thanks to all the peoples that have believed in this project.
Thanks to all the peoples and companies that have hosted the iso images.
My special thanks to:
Futurahost.com for hosting netwosix.org
Robert d'Aystetten
Pablo Povarchik
Armando Trinchillo

CD Image Checksum
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MD5 (netwosix1.0.x86.iso) = 62ce6077f762b9e36b28f873f6981f61 


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