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Smoothwall

Free open source firewall with its own security-hardened GNU/Linux operating system and a

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Smoothwall Express is a firewall operating system installed on x86 hardware (32- and 64-bit) or on supported hypervisors including KVM, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V and Xen. It bundles Linux, iptables, Snort, ClamAV, Squid and other networking and security packages, and is administered through a web interface. Development is handled by a community team with public release announcements and an IRC community.

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