Download ClarkConnect 3.1 beta 4

ClarkConnect is a complete operating system that can turn any normal PC into a dedicated gateway and easy-to-use server. All the usual features are included, such as a firewall, intrustion detection system, Apache web server with CGI, PHP and SSL support, file server with FTP, Windows and AppleShare, mail server with POP, IMAP and SMTP, built-in web proxy filter, print server with Samba support and of course DHCP and DNS services. The developers have added and removed the core of the ClarkConnect 3.1 series based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with a number of features. You can read exactly what those are in the release notes below:

What’s New

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 4 core
• LAN and system backup
• Significant firewall speed improvement
• New intrusion detection reports
• New intrusion prevention features
• Peer-to-peer bandwidth shaping
• PPTP pass through mode
• Content filter phrase list configuration
• Speakup support

Known Issues

• Modules are only available from the command line apt-get tool (not webconfig)
• We are evaluating the DHCP server capabilities of Dnsmasq. Right now, it is possible to have both the old DHCP server and the new Dnsmasq-based DHCP server installed at the same time.
• The Speakup support is broken in the installer (but works fine after post-install setup).

Differences Between ClarkConnect and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

• We decided to put aside the udev implementation (see RHEL 4 Release Notes). The implementation is a nice feature for desktop systems, but not all that important for server systems.
• The MySQL package was split into “mysql” and “mysql-client”.
• The distcache feature in the Apache web server was disabled.
• PPTP, firewall and peer-to-peer patches were added to the kernel.
• The Megaraid driver in the kernel was downgraded.