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DansGuardian
DansGuardian, written by SmoothWall Ltd and others, is content-control software: software designed to control which websites users can access. It also includes virus filtering and usage monitoring features. DansGuardian must be installed on a Unix or Linux computer, such as a server computer; its filtering extends to all computers in an organization, including Windows and Macintosh computers. DansGuardian is used by schools, businesses, value-added Internet service providers, and others. As of now, DansGuardian is no longer maintained. Its successor is named "e2guardian". Technical details DansGuardian is distributed under the GPLv2 free software license, and written using the C++ programming language. It primarily runs in Linux and other Unixes. It is entirely command line and web-based, and meant to be used in conjunction with a web proxy such as Squid. Graphical configuration tools The Ubuntu Christian Edition Linux distribution includes a graphical user interface (GUI) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SmoothWall
Smoothwall (formerly styled as SmoothWall) is a Linux distribution designed to be used as an open source firewall. Smoothwall is configured via a web-based GUI and requires little or no knowledge of Linux to install or use. Smoothwall is also a private software company based in the UK who specializes in the development of web content filtering, safeguarding and internet security solutions, which also maintains the SmoothWall open source project. History Smoothwall began life as Smoothwall GPL, a freely redistributable open source version. In August 2000, with a proprietary version sold by Smoothwall LTD from November 2001. Smoothwall still maintains its open source roots with Smoothwall Express still available today (latest release V3.1 in 2014), however the main Smoothwall solution is now paid for and is in use by millions of users worldwide in both the public and private sector. Smoothwall's filtering and safeguarding products are typically sold into educational organisations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |