LinuxSnap for Wednesday 8/7/13
Latest Distro Releases
IPFire 2.13 Core 71
IPFire, a Linux distribution designed for use as a firewall, has been updated to version 2.13 Core 71. From the release announcement:
Wireless Client on RED
It is now possible to assign a wireless adapter as the RED interface. A GUI has been written where you can configure wireless access points, to which the IPFire system will connect when in reach.
You will be able to configure backup access points, to which IPFire will switch when the first one is down or out of reach. You can prioritize them, so that you can connect to the best one when ever that is possible. All common encryption technologies are supported.
This was funded on the IPFire wishlist a while ago, but was delayed because of lack of testers.
DNS forwarding GUI
A new GUI has been written on which you are able to define different name servers than the public name servers for your DNS zones. So, you can use your internal name server for internal name resolution instead of the public one on the Internet.
Performance improvement of squidclamav
Scanning all the HTTP traffic that is going through the proxy is very costly and makes browsing slow. In this update, we put the squidclamav process “in front of the proxy”. It now trusts the cache and won’t scan data that’s coming from the cache again which results in a huge performance increase. You now don’t even reckon that your traffic is scanned for viruses.
Read the full release announcement here.
Articles of Interest
How to create an eBook the open source way – opensource.com
Building the open source laptop: How one engineer turned the geek fantasy to reality – zdnet.com
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