> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Dier [mailto:dieman+tclug at ringworld.org] > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:25 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Re: Floppy based firewall > > > * Leif Hvidsten <leif at mn.rr.com> [011231 23:43]: > > into the external service access feature. Be sure to check out the > > Special Edition ISO that just came out on Dec. 21st. > > http://www.smoothwall.org > > I decided to ignore these people from now on because they > have the mindset that the founder put in so much money into > making Free Software that people should be nice and never > critisize their ways. (phone-home registration, their methods > of dealing with some idiot who claimed they were breaking the > gpl and then saying all linux geeks are like that and they > are better than them, etc) I got sick and tired of it and > decided to absoultely not tell people about the project anymore. I'm annoyed with them also. I run it at home, but I'm going to switch to something else. Awhile back, I went to install it on a machine with SCSI (no IDE at all). They ripped scsi support out of the included kernel. So I downloaded their "SDK". Which consists of like 4 files and really has nothing included. So I joined their IRC channel and asked about SCSI support. They said that SCSI support would only be included with their commercial version due out in a couple of months (it's out now). So I asked how to recompile using their SDK so I could add SCSI support to mine, and they wouldn't talk to me anymore. These guys are a bunch of bastards. Their modified source isn't available, and they really could care less about their "free" version now that they have something to sell. If you're looking for a similar product, but better, check out Mandrake's SNF. The new version with kernel 2.4 will be out soon. (smoothwall is still kernel 2.2) Jay