14 DAY TRIAL // Devil-Linux developer Heiko Zuerker proudly announced the release and immediate availability for download of a new major update of his GNU/Linux distribution targeted at routers and firewalls, Devil-Linux 1.8.0.
Coming five years after the Devil-Linux 1.6.0 stable release, Devil-Linux 1.8.0 appears to be a major overhaul of the independently developed operating system, implementing the Google-Authenticator for PAM Pluggable Authentication Module and the HAProxy high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer.
Devil-Linux 1.8.0 also ships with the Haveged unpredictable random number generator tool, Dovecot-Pigeonhole Sieve filtering add-on for the Dovecot IMAP and POP3 server, SquashFS as default file system for the ISO image, featuring LZ4-HC compression.
"This is a major overhaul of Devil-Linux. Most programs and libraries have been updated, and unmaintained ones have been removed," reads the release announcement. "The main file system has been switched to SquashFS, to further reduce the ISO size."
Also added is a new init script located at /etc/init.d/post_init.local to aid various of the initialization scripts that need to run once everything else has started, and the save-config script has been updated to read the /etc/sysconfig/save-config.conf file for determining which extra files need to be saved.
Devil-Linux 1.8.0 replaces the Bacula backup system with BareOS, updates the build-system to allow compilation of all available modules located under src/python-modules/ with Python, and removes the ability to mount the bootcd.iso from a different storage device, along with Linux-HA, which was moved to Corosync 2.x + Pacemaker.
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