[Tawie-Press]: Trustix Secure Linux : the future is secure!

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Trustix Secure Linux: The future is secured

Founding father of Trustix Secure Linux, Erlend Midttun, along with
Trustix Secure Linux developer, Christian Toldnes now offers development,
maintenance and support for community and commercial customers from the
newly started company - Tawie Technologies AS.

Trondheim, Norway - 1st October 2003 - Erlend Midttun, a seasoned UNIX and
Linux system administrator and the creator of the Trustix Secure Linux
distibution, along with Trustix Secure Linux developer Christian Toldnes,
founded Tawie Technologies AS as a means to provide full support and
services around the Linux operating system in general, and the Tawie
Server Linux product in particular.

Erlend Midttun says: "The community and several commercial customers
needed someone to guarantee the future of the Trustix Secure Linux
product. This move ensures the customers and the community that the future
of Trustix Secure Linux is secured. The name of the product is also
changed to Tawie Server Linux, to reflect and state what the product is
and to avoid any conflicts with trademark ownership. The product will
continue to be developed under the GPL".

Tawie Technologies AS not only employs Erlend Midttun, experienced
security and software engineer Christian Toldnes was also part of the
founding duo. Christian is the current maintainer of SWUP, the automatic
software update tool for Tawie Server Linux (TSL).

Christian was instrumental to the release of TSL 2.0 this summer, and
says: "We have received several reports of TSL 2.0 installations in
several 30+ server environments. Serving Windows and UNIX users, primary
DNS, web and e-mail services in Europe, Americas and Asia. Systems
administrators rely on the stability and security of TSL, and our move to
Tawie Technologies AS now gives us the time and security we need to focus
on TSL".

Tawie Server Linux 2.0 provides full cross upgrades from Trustix Secure
Linux 2.0. The details for doing this is provided on the Tawie
Technologies webpage.

ABOUT Tawie Technologies AS
Tawie Technologies AS was founded in 2003 and provides consultancy and
service contracts for the Tawie Server Linux. Services are provided world
wide, with a wide range of support options available.

For more information about Tawie Technologies AS, see http://www.tawie.com

ABOUT TAWIE SERVER LINUX
Tawie Server Linux is a Linux distribution targeted at companies, of all
sizes, in need of a low footprint and high security server operating
system. Tawie Server Linux includes the open standards based SoftWare
UPdater, SWUP, which keeps all software packages up-to-date, resolves
library dependancies and integrates public key cryptography to ensure
safety and security.

For more information about Tawie Server Linux, see http://www.tawie.net/


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