Devil-Linux

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Devil-Linux
Devil Linux Login Screen
Website	www.devil-linux.org
Company/ developer	DL team
OS family	Linux
Source model	Open source
Latest stable release	1.2.14 / November 21, 2007
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
Working state	Current

Devil-Linux is a Linux distribution for use as a router/firewall which boots and runs completely from CD-ROM which can be put on an older PC that would otherwise go to waste. This, combined with a hub or switch is a solution some Linux users prefer instead of using a dedicated router.

Devil-Linux does not provide a graphical interface, making it a very light-weight distribution. Nevertheless, it includes a wide range of services (E.g.: DNS, Web, FTP, SMTP, ...), tools (MySQL, Lynx, Wget, ...) and security utilities (OpenVPN, Shorewall, ...) ensuring a high level of flexibility. Saving the configuration to a (later write protected) floppy disk, the settings can be restored at boot. Without using writable media, Devil-Linux is extremely secure from outside attacks.

Devil-Linux uses a Linux from Scratch (LFS) build system that allows the user to create customized versions of this distribution.

It uses the grsecurity kernel-patch.

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AIDE - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
Apache 2 - Web Server
Apcupsd - A daemon for controlling APC UPSes
Arpwatch - tool that monitors ethernet activity
AWStats - Free log file analyzer for advanced statistics
CIPE - encrypted IP in UDP tunneling
cron - Scheduled command execution for your server or workstation
cURL - command line tool to automate unattended file transfers or sequences of operations
DenyHosts - a script intended to help thwart SSH server attacks
ez-ipupdate - a client for automatically updating your IP address on the EZ-IP.net
HA - High Availability (Heartbeat)
hostapd - is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers
iproute2 - is a collection of utilities for controlling TCP / IP networking and traffic control
IPsec-Tools -
Jailkit - a set of utilities to create chroot shells or chroot daemons
l2tpd - Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Daemon
LCD4Linux - a small program that grabs information from the kernel and displays it on external LCD
logrotate - is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files
Logwatch - is a customizable log analysis system
lpd - Line Printer Daemon protocol
SpamAssassin - A mail filter, written in Perl, to identify spam using a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text.
Mgetty + Sendfax - a reliable and proven fax send and receive solution
MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
Nagios - a popular open source computer system and network monitoring application software.
nameD - DNS Daemon
Ntop - tool that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does.
NTP - Network Time Protocol
OpenLDAP - implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
pam.d - Pluggable Authentication Modules
Postfix - mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email
PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol commonly used to establish a direct connection between two nodes.
RADb - a public registry of routing information for networks in the Internet.
Samba - provides file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including Windows
Sarg - Squid Analysis Report Generator
SASL2: Simple Authentication and Security Layer
scponly is an alternative 'shell' for providing access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution privileges
SER - SIP Express Router, a high-performance, configurable, free SIP server
Shorewall -a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter.
Snort - intrusion detection/prevention
SOCKS - an Internet protocol that allows client-server applications to transparently use the services of a network firewall.
SSH - is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel between two computers
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer, a communications protocol
UPS - Automatic Shutdown
VMware Tools - package enhances graphics and mouse performance in virtual machines
WLAN - is a wireless local area network
Zebra - routing software