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IT Help Desk => Open Source Forum => Topic started by: safiqul on October 31, 2011, 08:32:53 PM

Title: Bifrost - A small linux distribution
Post by: safiqul on October 31, 2011, 08:32:53 PM

Bifrost is a small Linux distribution for USB media, flash disks etc. It's mainly targeted for production and infrastructure networking, routing/firwalling etc but it is also used in research and education. One of the overall design goals is to keep things simple and straightforward.

Bifrost/Linux main features

    Linux for infrastructure
    Stability
    Network performance
    Simplicity
    Dependency reduction. Bifrost/Linux is completely statically linked
    Hardware testing and selection

Source: http://bifrost.slu.se/

Title: Re: Bifrost - A small linux distribution
Post by: safiqul on October 31, 2011, 08:34:50 PM

You can also try Vyatta -- http://www.vyatta.com/


Vyatta manufactures an open source router/firewall/VPN product for Internet Protocol networks (IPv4 and IPv6). A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others.

Title: Re: Bifrost - A small linux distribution
Post by: M Z Karim on November 01, 2011, 12:41:07 PM

Thanks for the post.