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SmoothWall Open Source

The SmoothWall Open Source Project was set up in 2000 to develop and maintain SmoothWall Express - a Free firewall that includes its own security-hardened GNU/Linux operating system and an easy-to-use web interface. More »

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January 2012

SmoothWall Express 3.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3)

Published: June 02, 2011

Today we have released the SmoothWall Express 3.0 SP3 Installation CD (iso image)

This new CD contains SmoothWall Express 3.0 with updates 1 – 8 pre-installed meaning that new installations may take advantage of the improved driver support, the Ext4 filesystem, larger drive support and RAID array support introduced in SmoothWall Express 3.0 Update 8.

If you have previously had difficulty installing … More »

Protect Your Network with an Open-Source Firewall

Published: November 02, 2009

IT manager, Michael Scalisi puts together an excellent article on the Washington Post discussing SmoothWall Express.

He states “When you need a robust firewall on a non-existent budget, here is an easy solution.”

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