SmoothWall.org One of the best network firewall protection software

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The SmoothWall GPL project was founded in the summer of 2000, with Lawrence Manning as the principal code author and Richard Morrell acting as project manager. Other early contributors to the project included John Fautley and Tom Ellis, all of whom were living close to Southampton in the south of England. Their goal was to create a minimal Linux distribution that would convert a redundant Intel (or compatible) PC into a hardened Internet firewall device. The first version of SmoothWall was posted to sourceforge.org at the end of August 2000.

From these small beginning the project grew rapidly. Soon hundreds of copies were being downloaded every week; then it was thousands. Many more people joined the project team, bringing in new skills, knowledge and the ability to test SmoothWall on telecommunications systems worldwide. Richard sought every possible opportunity to publicise SmoothWall and soon SmoothWall was appearing on magazine cover CDs both in the UK and in many other countries. Even the project founders were amazed just how quickly SmoothWall became so popular. In the early months of the project new versions were released almost weekly, incorporating new features based on software contributions from around the world, along with support for an ever wider array of PC and networking hardware.

Version 0.9.9 was a major milestone in the history of the project. Released in September 2001, the team perceive it as the point where the project "grew up", with a firewall that could be used by non-Linux people with all administration performed via its web browser based Graphical User Interface (GUI). Version 0.9.9 was the first version with a multi-language GUI, the inclusion of the Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and support for ADSL modems and PPPoE connections.