Devil-Linux is an open source and independent distribution of Linux designed from the ground up to be used as a firewall or router. It is small, secure and fully customizable Linux-based operating system that runs only in text mode.
Distributed as a TAR archive for 32-bit platforms
The project was originally intended to act only as a dedicated firewall or router system, but today it can also be used as a Linux server. It's distributed as a TAR archive tagged with the i686 architecture and deployable onto a USB flash drive or written to a CD disc.
The distribution will work on an a machine that sports an Intel 486 compatible or higher CPU, at least 32MB of RAM, as well as a CD-ROM drive, USB storage device or floppy disk drive.
Boot options
When booting the operating system from the bootable medium, it will present users with a minimal boot prompt from where they can choose to start the distribution with a pre-defined screen resolution or run a memory diagnostic test.
It will search for configuration media. If one is not found, it will ask you if you still want the load the distribution or not, so just answer yes at this point. At the login prompt, use the root username without a password.
Installing Devil-Linux
To install the distribution, just type the setup command and hit Enter. Meet the Devil-Linux System Configurator tool that will allow you to edit basic configuration values, select which services are started on boot, set up network cards and firewalling.
In addition, you can configure a basic DHCP server on your internal network, change root's login password, configure various other services, as well as to save the configuration.
Bottom line
In conclusion, Devil-Linux is not a scary distribution of Linux. It can be used by anyone who wants a firewall/router operating system that offers high security with safe and easy upgrades. It is completely configurable, with no writable system device.
What is new in this release:
- Major overhaul:
- Most programs and libraries have been updated
- Unmaintained programs and libraries have been removed
- What's new:
- build-system: python now compiles all available modules from src/python-modules/
- added haveged
- added haproxy
- added google-authenticator for PAM
- added dovecot-pigeonhole
- squashfs is now the main file system with lz4-hc compression
- mounting of bootcd.iso from another storage devices is not supported anymore. Use bootcd.squash
- save-config now reads /etc/sysconfig/save-config.conf to determine additional files that shoule be saved (Frank Weis)
- added a new init script /etc/init.d/post_init.local to help with some initializations scripts that need to run after everything else is up
- replace bacula with bareos. manual migration is necessary.
- removed Linux-HA and moved to Corosync 2.x + Pacemaker (new industry standard)
What is new in version 1.6.9 / 1.8.0 RC2:
- This is a major overhaul of Devil-Linux. Most programs and libraries have been updated and unmaintained ones have been removed. The main file system has been switched to squashfs, to further reduce the iso size. See the changelog for additional details.
What is new in version 1.6.9 / 1.8.0 RC1:
- This release brings lots of software updates and resolves the GHOST glibc vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235).
What is new in version 1.6.8:
- This release brings lots of software updates and resolves the GHOST glibc vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235).
What is new in version 1.6.7:
- This release brings lots of software updates
What is new in version 1.4 RC1:
- updated alsa-driver to 1.0.20
- updated alsa-lib to 1.0.20
- updated alsa-oss to 1.0.17
- updated alsa-tools to 1.0.20
- updated alsa-utils to 1.0.20
- updated gradm to 2.1.14-200905131803
- updated grsecurity to 2.1.14-2.6.29.3-200905192213
- updated ipsec-tools to 0.7.2
- updated lftp to 3.7.14
- updated open-vm-tools to 2009.05.22-167859
- updated openldap to 2.4.16
- updated Kernel to 2.6.29.4
- updated procps to 3.2.8
- updated psmisc to 22.7
- updated stunnel to 4.27
- updated sudo to 1.7.1
- added additional webmin modules
- updated almost all perl modules
- added sendmail v8.14.3 (only libmilter for the build system is used)
- added dkim-milter v2.8.2
- rollback kernel to 2.6.29.2 (sl)
- updated coreutils to 7.3 (sl)
- updated file to 5.01 (sl)
- updated libevent to 1.4.10 (sl)
- updated kernel to 2.6.29.3 (sl)
- updated rsync to 3.0.6 (sl)
- updated grsecurity to 2.1.14-2.6.29.2-200905040840
- created missing cron directories
- added patch quagga-0.99.11-BGP-4-byte-ASN-bug-fixes
- added webmin 1.470
- updated bacula to 3.0.1
- updated gradm to 2.1.14-200904242018
- updated grsecurity to 2.1.14-2.6.29.2-200904281847
- updated mysql to 5.1.34
- updated patch to 2.6.29.2
- updated php to 5.2.9
- updated unrarsrc to 3.8.5
- added bacula-3.0.0
- added docbook2X-0.8.8
- updated e2fsprogs to 1.41.5
- updated glib to 2.20.1
- updated man-pages to 3.21
- updated mdadm to 2.6.9
- updated pcmciautils to 015
- updated syslinux to 3.75
- updated udev to 141
- corrected problem with run levels not being set up correctly
- fixed ntop init script (Andrzej Odyniec/sl)
- updated binutils to 2.19.1 (sl)
- updated eventlog to 0.2.9 (sl)
- updated hdparm to 9.15 (sl)
- updated nfs-utils to 1.1.6 (sl)
- updated postgresql to 8.3.7 (sl)
- added parted 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24 (from debian)
- enabled DST (updated kernel patch for 2.6.29)
- updated aoe6 to .71 (sl)
- updated conntrack-tools to 0.9.12 (sl)
- updated cyrus-imapd to 2.3.14 (sl)
- updated dhcp to 3.1.2 (sl)
- updated freeradius-server to 2.1.4 (sl)
- updated iproute2 to 2.6.29-1 (sl)
- updated ipset to 2.5.0 (sl)
- updated iptables to 1.4.3.2 (sl)
- updated Linux-PAM to 1.0.4 (sl)
- updated LVM2 to 2.02.45 (sl)
- updated open-iscsi to git-20090417 (sl)
- updated openssl to 0.9.8k (sl)
- updated pcre to 7.9 (sl)
- updated sqlite-amalgamation to 3.6.13 (sl)
- updated squashfs to 4.0 (sl)
- updated strongswan to 4.2.14 (sl)
- updated ucarp to 1.5 (sl)
- updated xfsprogs to 3.0.0 (sl)
- updated bind to 9.6.0-P1
- replaced vmware-guestd with vmtoolsd
- disabled DST for now (no kernel patch for 2.6.29)
- removed linux-wlan-ng
- updated aufs2-git-20090413
- updated awstats-6.9
- updated bridge-utils-git-20090408
- updated clamav-0.95.1
- updated curl-7.19.4
- updated dcc-1.3.103
- updated dvd+rw-tools-7.1
- updated fetchmail-6.3.9
- updated freetype-2.3.9
- updated gpm-1.20.6
- updated gradm-2.1.14-200903281538
- updated grsecurity-2.1.14-2.6.29-200903281534
- updated hdparm-9.14
- updated iptables-1.4.3
- updated iscsitarget-svn-20090413
- updated joe-3.7
- updated kid-0.9.6
- updated lftp-3.7.11
- updated libHX-2.5
- updated libcap-2.16
- updated libpng-1.2.35
- updated linux-2.6.29.1
- updated loop-AES-v3.2f
- updated mc-4.6.2
- updated mtools-4.0.10
- updated nut-2.4.1
- updated open-vm-tools-2009.03.18-154848
- updated pciutils-3.0.3
- updated readline-5.2
- updated rrdtool-1.2.30
- updated sagator-1.1.1
- updated samba-3.3.3
- updated shorewall-common-4.2.6
- updated shorewall-perl-4.2.6
- updated shorewall-shell-4.2.6
- updated snort-2.8.4
- updated swig-1.3.39
- updated syslinux-3.73
- updated sysstat-9.0.1
- updated tar-1.22
- updated tftp-hpa-5.0
- updated util-linux-ng-2.14.2
- updated zip-1.8.10
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