ClarkConnect - are there any free (for commercial use) alternatives?

feenster99 · 31 Jul 2006 at 19:58

Hi all,
Now I know ClarkConnect is just a Linux distro with bits and bobs bolted on, but it looks like its ease of setup and use would be ideal for some commercial projects I have in mind.

Are there any open source, free for commercial use, distro's that have the same features wrapped up with a similarly nice interface?

Cheers,
Matt

deano · 31 Jul 2006 at 20:46

http://contribs.org/modules/news/

as far as i know it's free as in beer

cheers
deano

feenster99 · 31 Jul 2006 at 22:18

Cheers, looks good.

Anymore for anymore?

Cheers,
Matt

Topgun · 31 Jul 2006 at 23:06

pfsense

Jimathy · 1 Aug 2006 at 12:05

CentOS might be worth a look.

I must admit to using debian and/or ubuntu for most of my linux server installs these days, apt makes it just too easy to install just the stuff thats needed.

deano · 1 Aug 2006 at 21:49

Centos now comes with yum

which is pretty much apt-get

cheers
deano

zetec452 · 1 Aug 2006 at 22:55

I would say it depends on your ability to use Linux. For me as a beginner I would probably just about do everything clark connect does with Ubuntu. But would probably use Clarkconnect as it's nice and easy to manage.

happytechie · 2 Aug 2006 at 15:54

any open source (GPL) project is by definition free for comercial use. of course there might well be a non free extension to it that isn't

you could use smoothwall free edition (whatever that's called nowadays)
or the free thing that was forked from it a while back. Smoothwall express rings a bell

HT

edit IPCop is the thingy that you need... http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40604