[ale] The Lost Project

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 21 October 2002 04:14 pm, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Denny Chambers wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 	I came accross a project a while back that was building distros
> > for specific purpose. Like a DNS server, Samba server, etc... These
> > were geared to MS admins who did not want to spend hours figuring
> > how to get these services up and configured on linux. Has any one
> > heard of this project or one like it.
>
> I believe you may be referring to the Netmax line. Run, far far away.
>
> http://www.netmax.com if you must.
>
> They have since shifted their focus to VPN and Firewall packages.
> Originally they offered a file server, general purpose "Internet"
> server, and a firewall. Ironically, their firewall was the worst of
> the bunch when I evaluated their product line about a year and a half
> ago.

Have you looked at SmoothWall?  What is you opinion of it?  It looks 
pretty good to my untutored eye.

Michael

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