Stormix
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Stormix was a company that debuted its Debian-based Linux distribution with "Storm Linux 2000" in late 1999. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Stormix was an off-shoot of NetNation Communications, at the time, one of the top-ten web hosting companies in the world. In addition to Storm Linux, the company also produced a personal firewall, and began development of a customized rack mount server and Dedicated VPN Appliance. Juan Alberto Cirez was the lead developer for that effort. He created the bridgeware (IPSEC, Webmin, Kernel Module, etc.) that made this revolutionary idea possible. Although making an impressive showing at Linuxworld and in the Linux trade magazines, due to lack of funds, the company was voluntarily dissolved by its owners around January of 2001. The company's Storm Package Manager was released under the GNU General Public License and is currently part of Debian's stable release, but no longer appears to be in active development.
