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  11                                 <h3>more security for your network</h3>
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  14                                         <b>Dear users!</b><br /><br />
  15                                         At the moment, there are a lot updates to do for our serverfarm.
  16                                         Though, some services could be down. We are looking forward
  17                                         to bring everything back online as fast as possible.
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  20                                 <p>
  21                                         <strong>IPFire</strong> is a source-based linux firewall distribution
  22                                         that brings additional features with it. The easy-to-set-up system defeats
  23                                         its competitiors like IPCop, Smoothwall and Endian-Firewall potty.
  24                                         A <strong>stateful-inspection-firewall</strong> with a luxuriant
  25                                         <strong>content-filtering</strong>-engine plus
  26                                         <strong>traffic-control (QoS)</strong> rounded with latest
  27                                         <strong>vpn-technology</strong> and a lot of logging is
  28                                         foolproof to administer with just a very few clicks.
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  35                                         "Modular system" is the principle of IPFire.<br />
  36                                         There is a big number of addons. See the short list below:
  37                                 </p>
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  39                                 <ul class="links">
  40                                         <li class="first">- Intrusion-Prevention-System Snort(Guardian) and more security tools Tripwire and Lynis</li>
  41                                         <li>- File- and printserver for heterogeneous networks (Samba, CUPS, FTP &amp; NFS)</li>
  42                                         <li>- Voice-over-IP solution with Asterisk and Teamspeak plus traffic prioritization</li>
  43                                         <li>- Multimedia addons (video- &amp; audio-streaming, jukebox)</li>
  44                                         <li>- WLan Access Point with hostap and many Atheros Chips</li>
  45                                         <li>- and many more - <a href="http://wiki.ipfire.org/Addons" target="_blank">List of all Addons</a></li>
  46                                 </ul>
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  52                                         <h3>2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final</h3>
  53                                         <ul class="post_info">
  54                                                 <li class="date">Get it quick</li>
  55                                         </ul>
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  57                                         <p>
  58                                                 <b>Dear Community!</b><br />
  59                                                 This day, we released the final version of IPFire 2.3.
  60                                                 <br />
  61                                                 <br />
  62                                                 Major changes since the first version 2.1 in November 2007
  63                                                 <br />
  64                                                 <li class="first">DNS-Securityupdate and many more packet updates</li>
  65                                                 <li>Enhancement of the packet manager</li>
  66                                                 <li>Improvement of the Quality-of-Service rules - Presets for QoS</li>
  67                                                 <li>Adjustable Firewall Logging</li>
  68                                                 <li>Kernel-Modules for better hardware suport</li>
  69                                                 <li>Change the system statistic to „collectd"</li>
  70                                                 <li>Better disk handling (S.M.A.R.T. and Standby)</li>
  71                                                 <li>Status- and Serviceview in the Webinterface</li>
  72                                                 <li>Proxy and Redirector now work more dynamic</li>
  73                                                 <br />
  74                                                 <br />
  75                                                 In addition the 2.3 will change the following things
  76                                                 <br />
  77                                                 <li class="first">Kernel update to Linux-2.6.25.19</li>
  78                                                 <li>Update of many more packets (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, Squid, Snort, collectd, ntfs-3g, Openswan, Updatexlrator, iptables, l7protocols)</li>
  79                                                 <li>With severall Atheros Chips IPFire is able to work as Wireless Access Point</li>
  80                                                 <li>Better support of UMTS-3G-Modems</li>
  81                                                 <li>Use of tmpfs to reduce disk reads and writes</li>
  82                                                 <li>Better hardware monitoring by the use of lmsensors</li>
  83                                                 <li>Vnstat Traffic-Accounting replaces ipac-ng</li>
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  85                                                 <br />
  86                                                 The IPFire Team
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  95                                         <h3>2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1</h3>
  96                                         <ul class="post_info">
  97                                                 <li class="date">Check it out</li>
  98                                         </ul>
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 101                                                 <b>Dear Community!</b><br />
 102                                                 This day, we released the first Release Candidate of IPFire 2.3.
 103                                                 <br />
 104                                                 Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
 105                                                 <a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,812.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
 106                                                 <br />
 107                                                 <br />
 108                                                 The IPFire Team
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 117                                         <h3>2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5</h3>
 118                                         <ul class="post_info">
 119                                                 <li class="date">Check it out</li>
 120                                         </ul>
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 123                                                 <b>Dear Community!</b><br />
 124                                                 This day, we released the fifth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
 125                                                 <br />
 126                                                 Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
 127                                                 <a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,788.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
 128                                                 <br />
 129                                                 We finally had to do bigger changes and though: This is beta #5!
 130                                                 <br />
 131                                                 <br />
 132                                                 The IPFire Team
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 141                                         <h3>2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4</h3>
 142                                         <ul class="post_info">
 143                                                 <li class="date">Check it out</li>
 144                                         </ul>
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 146                                         <p>
 147                                                 <b>Dear Community!</b><br />
 148                                                 This day, we released the fourth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
 149                                                 <br />
 150                                                 Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
 151                                                 <a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,783.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
 152                                                 <br />
 153                                                 We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback, so we're able to have
 154                                                 a well tested version and go quickly forward to the Release Candidates.
 155                                                 <br />
 156                                                 <br />
 157                                                 Maniac for the team of IPFire
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 166                                         <h3>2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1</h3>
 167                                         <ul class="post_info">
 168                                                 <li class="date">"The best is yet to come."</li>
 169                                         </ul>
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 172                                                 <b>Dear Community!</b><br />
 173                                                 It is almost a year ago, we´ve finalized the 2.1 and started the BETA process for
 174                                                 the final release. After two hard months 2.1 was released in november 2007. Here are
 175                                                 some very interisting numbers to show the growing interest for IPFire and its ongoing
 176                                                 developement.
 177                                                 <br />
 178                                                 Stats can be found here
 179                                                 <a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats1.png" target="_blank">Stats 1</a>
 180                                                 <a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats2.png" target="_blank">Stats 2</a>
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 182                                                 <br />
 183                                                 We want to thank all of you and hope IPFire will spread more and more
 184                                                 <br />
 185                                                 <br />
 186                                                 Maniacikarus for the IPFire-Team
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 211                                 <h4><span>About</span> us</h4>
 212                                 <p><strong>IPFire</strong> is developed by a group
 213                                         of free programmers. They set it as their target
 214                                         to create a secure and easy-going on ressources
 215                                         firewall and a wide-ranging soho-server
 216                                         in one piece.
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 219                                 <h4><span>RSS</span> feed</h4>
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 226                                 <h4><span>Internet Relay</span> Chat</h4>
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 228                                         <b>Server:</b> irc.freenode.net<br />
 229                                         <b>Channel:</b> #ipfire<br />
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