Vyatta Inc., a company that builds open-source and commercially supported networking solutions that provide an alternative to inflexible and over-priced products from proprietary vendors, announced yesterday evening the immediate availability of Vyatta 5.0.2. Being based on the Debian mammoth, the new release of the Vyatta operating system introduces several new features and fixes lots of annoying bugs over previous versions.

"I'm pleased to announce that VC5 has officially been released. The final version was the same as the Beta 3 version (5.0.2). If you're running the final beta, there is no need to upgrade. If you're not running the final version, you can either update using the stable package repository configuration, or you can reinstall from CD-ROM. ISO images are available on vyatta.org and vyatta.com." - said Dave Robers, Vyatta employee, in the official release announcement.

Highlights of Vyatta 5.0.2:

· Web GUI functionality;
· OpenVPN support;
· Traffic filtering and intrusion protection system;
· URL filtering;
· Web caching;
· DNS forwarding;
· Dynamic DNS support;
· Enhanced support for VMware;
· Support for RFC 2684 (formerly RFC 1483) Bridged Ethernet over ADSL;
· Support for Synchronous Serial Cards;
· Serial loopback commands;
· Support for RAID-1;
· Experimental support for Ethernet Link Bonding;
· Experimental support for Wireless modems;
· Experimental support for the IPv6 protocol;
· Cross-document PDF search;
· Web-based documentation;
· New overview guides;
· Redesigned technical library.

Vyatta 5.0.2 removes the antivirus functionality because of some patent issues. Moreover, the minimum required space for the root partition is 1 GB, but the developers recommend using 2 GB or more.

Vyatta Linux combines firewall, VPN and router capabilities into a single and unique solution that tries to deliver twice the performance of proprietary network solutions for half the price.

Download Vyatta Linux 5.0.2 right now from Softpedia.