Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] No more new releases

[Roland P. <rp...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm also very sorry to see DL go :-(  But I understand the dilemma. I too 
don't have the time any more to set up my fw from scratch (build own iso, 
etc), I need something that works out of the box (but still allows me to 
customize everything if needed).

I've started to look around for a replacement and found Alpine Linux. It can 
also be run in a stateless mode with configuration on a writeable medium:
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation
I haven't been able to try it out yet, but it looks at least promising.

Thanks to everyone and Heiko especially!

Roland



> Hi Heiko,
> 
> first of all many many Thanks for all your effort and support !
> 
> It's really sad to hear that you have to stop to maintain DL, which we run
> since more than 15 years now on our fw and vpn.
> I hate the idea of having to change our setup, it was one of our most
> reliable and easy to run systems over all these years :-(
> However, times move on and I fully understand that at some point time gets
> an issue.
> 
> It seems that we'll have to start looking for an alternative.
> Until now I didn't even bother about alternatives, since there was simply
> no need for such, never...
> Is there something that you or someone on this list can recommend?
> I mainly "need" the CD/DVD (system) + USB (config) combination including
> shorewall, dhcrelay, openvpn, rsyslog
> 
> Thanks again
>   Dietmar
> 
> 2018-01-07 17:41 GMT+01:00 Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>:
> > Bruce,
> > 
> > Yes it was no easy decision, but I finally just had to admit it to myself.
> > 
> > Many thanks to you too. Without your help DL would never have gotten this
> > far.
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Bruce Smith <bw...@re...> wrote:
> >> Heiko,
> >> 
> >> Thank you for all of your hard work over the years!!!
> >> 
> >> I guess it's true that all good things must come to and end.
> >> 
> >> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 6:24 AM, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote:
> >>> Unfortunately, after almost 20 years, I have to officially stop
> >>> releasing new versions of Devil-Linux. I simply do not have the time
> >>> anymore to do this properly. This is in addition to GRSecurity not being
> >>> available anymore to the general public, which was the core of our
> >>> security
> >>> features. It has been a blast maintaining this distro and we had a lot
> >>> of
> >>> long-term followers, for which I am very grateful.
> >>> All current downloads and the sources will of course stay on the
> >>> websites.
> >>> If anybody wants to pick up where I left off, please feel free to reach
> >>> out so that we can transfer all the responsibilities.
> >>> 
> >>> --
> >>> 
> >>> Regards
> >>> 
> >>>   Heiko Zuerker
> >> 
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> > Regards
> > 
> >   Heiko Zuerker
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