I agree with Trent. Shorewall is a mature, well craft product that pretty well (if not does) supports everything that a user would want a firewall to do.
I'm just not the person to do this (not being a programmer) but if there was thing I would like to see enhanced and that's the plugin module for Shorewall on Webmin and possibly some "setup" documentation for a dummy like me! Nigel. -----Original Message----- From: Trent O'Callaghan [mailto:trent.ocallag...@nearmap.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 17:24 To: 'Shorewall Users' Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall Development Schedule Hi Tom, I concur on Shorewall reaching maturity. Thanks for your sustained efforts to respond to the need for a open source firewall in the ever evolving linux world. Kind regards, Trent O'Callaghan Network Manager www.nearmap.com -----Original Message----- From: Tom Eastep [mailto:teas...@shorewall.net] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 5:38 AM To: Shorewall Users; Shorewall Development Subject: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall Development Schedule As Shorewall reaches maturity, it seems unlikely that the pace of development typical of the past 9 years will be sustained. Over that time, major releases have occurred approximately once per year; the last major release (4.4) was in August 2009. I do not currently have an active 4.5 development branch so it is very unlikely that we will see a 4.6 release this year. Going forward, I would expect a new minor release every 2-3 months. These minor releases will be preceded by Beta and RC releases like we have been having since 4.4.6. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
