New Security Software free at wwwsourceforge.net and www.SmoothWall.org.New security software is available free from SourceForge, the Open Source development centre on the web. Smooth Wall is a software firewall and dial up router suitable for any SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. , home or telework See telecommuting. network running Windows PCs, Macs or Linux operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Currently being translated to be available in seventeen languages and 18MB in size it downloads and installs in approximately 35 minutes using a 56K modem. Smooth Wall was developed using the free available components that make up the Linux operating system. Taking the power of Open Source software, and utilising the software programming code that is freely available to the worldwide software development community, Smooth Wall then becomes freely distributable under the GNU gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. General Public Licence (spelling) General Public Licence - It's spelled "General Public License".(In the UK, "licence" is a noun and "license" is a verb (like "advice"/"advise") but in the US both are spelled "license"). . The project has been managed on SourceForge, the Open Source development centre on the web. A team of 6 Linux User Group (body, Linux) Linux User Group - (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests, and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. members, made up of developers, testers and editors from the UK development community, headed up by Richard Morrell, a technical consultant at VA Linux Systems UK, and picked by Lawrence Manning, a Linux developer, designed and built Smooth Wall in 2 months. SourceForge has allowed the Smooth Wall development team to penetrate into corners of the globe as diverse as South Africa, North America, Canada and Australia - and for SourceForge alone to be responsible for providing almost 7000 downloads of SmoothWall since it's inception and launch. |
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