Coyote Linux personal firewall distribution is designed for the purpose of protecting a personal or educational network. Coyote Linux has very low hardware requirements and is able to provide the performance and uptime that is expected from any Linux based system.

This release of Coyote Linux is available free of charge, but it is licensed for personal and educational use only. For commercial or government use, you can use "Wolverine Firewall and VPN Server".

I think this is the smallest firewall distribution that exists.

Let's look at some features of Coyote Linux personal firewall:

￭ Linux 2.6 based system kernel
￭ Iptables based stateful firewalling
￭ Support for Ethernet (static and DHCP) and PPPoE Internet connections
￭ Excellent uptime and operating system reliability
￭ SSH 2.0 and web based remote administration options
￭ No-cost alternative that can make use of old hardware that may have otherwise lost its usefulness.
￭ Easily shares an Internet connection with several LAN clients (adequate hardware and Internet connectivity required).

The very low hardware requirements are:

￭ 486DX/25 or better processor
￭ 32MB RAM
￭ CDROM Drive
￭ 2 PCI Network interface cards
￭ 32MB of IDE, SCSI, or SATA storage
￭ VGA display adapter

You can download Coyote Linux now from Softpedia. Be advised that there is a stable and a BETA version (for testing only) of Coyote Linux.