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IPFire Linux Firewall Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Protocol

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with support for the WireGuard VPN protocol and other updates. Here’s what’s new!
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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12.23 LTS and Other Updates

IPFire developer Michael Tremer released IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 today as a new stable update to this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution that primarily performs as a router and a firewall.

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IPFire Linux Firewall Gets Post-Quantum Cryptography Support for IPsec Tunnels

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 193 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with post-quantum cryptography support for IPsec tunnels, updated components, and other changes.
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IPFire Hardened Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 192 open-source hardened Linux firewall is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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IPFire Linux Firewall Preps for Wi-Fi 7, Adopts Post-Quantum Cryptography

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 190 open-source hardened Linux firewall is now available for download with support for post-quantum cryptography and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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5 Best Open-Source Firewall Distributions

Here’s our verdict for the best open-source firewall distributions captured in a legendary LinuxLinks chart. All of the software featured in this article is released under an open-source license. Each of the solutions offers a comparable set of feature…

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IPFire Linux Firewall Gets Experimental Btrfs Support, Intel RFDS Mitigations

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 186 hardened open-source GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download with experimental Btrfs support, CPU frequency scaling for Raspberry Pi, and more.
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IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Kicks Off 2024 by Blocking Email Spammers by Default

Featuring an updated GRUB bootloader to version 2.12 RC1 and an updated CA certificate bundle, the IPFire 2.27 Core Update 182 release is here to introduce a new change in the default firewall policy to block outgoing SMTP traffic from internal network…

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IPFire 2.27 Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS

Powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series, IPFire 2.27 Core Update 173 is here to introduce support for the QMI.
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Latest IPFire Linux Firewall Release Future-Proofs VPN Cryptography

This new IPFire hardened Linux firewall release improves the VPN in an attempt to future-proof VPN cryptography. Learn more here.
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IPFire Hardened Open-Source Linux Firewall Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS

IPFire 2.27 Core Update 164 is here as the first release of the IPFire Linux firewall to be powered by the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series, which is supported until October 2023. As you can expect, the new kernel improves compatibility with newer hardware components, adds security and bug fixes, enables virtualization support with libvirt […]

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IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS

IPFire 2.27 Core Update 162 is here less than a month after the Core Update 161 release as the last update of the year and also the first update to be powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series. Until now, IPFire was powered by the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel series, since […]

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 22nd, 2021

Last week was a great week for Linux news as we got new major releases of Manjaro, Zorin OS, SparkyLinux, MATE desktop, IPFire, and LibreOffice. On top of that, Ubuntu users got a new Linux kernel update, and gamers can now play even more Windows games with Valve’s newest Proton release. For bleeding-edgers, there’s new […]

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IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by the Long-Term Supported Linux 5.10 Kernel

The biggest change in the IPFire 2.27 Core Update 159 release is a new major kernel update as the firewall/router distribution is now powered by the long-term supported Linux 5.10 LTS series, which will receive updates for five years, until December 2026. As expected, the new kernel version brings better hardware support with its many […]

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