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Historical Coyote Linux website content being restored
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Work is being performed to restore the historical site contents to coyotelinux.com. Using a combination of old backups and snapshots in the archive.org's "Wayback Machine", nearly 30 years of Coyote Linux archive content is being partially restored. Restorations of the historical downloads, source code, site news, and hopefully the forum content are being worked on.
The forum content will be the tough one to get restored. There were tens of thousands of posts in the forums when they went offline over a decade ago. Thus far, a database backup of this content has yet to be located. Attempting to restore such content from external archives would simply be too massive of a task.
Digital backups of very old historical content was stored on CD or DVD and were not stored in proper conditions to maintain the media integrity.
The Coyote Linux project resurrected after 20 years
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The Coyote Linux firewall project has been inactive for nearly 20 years and a new version is finally in the works.
The Coyote project was originally started in 1999 as a way to securely share a broadband Internet connection with multiple computers on a home or small business network. The name Coyote was originally chosen as the target broadband provider was Time Warner Cable’s “Road Runner” cable Internet.
To keep up with the massive changes to technology, connection speeds, the way we use the Internet, and the serious nature of online security, Coyote is being re-engineered from the ground up. New versions of Coyote will be much more robust and have a vastly different set of hardware requirements. While older versions focused heavily on being absolutely minimalistic, new versions of Coyote will aim to have a more complete feature set while still maintaining a very small footprint.
The current development environment being put together utilizes the Windows Subsystem for Linux v2 (WSL2) and Visual Studio Code. With the firewall image testing being carried out in both Hyper-V virtual environments and on the target hardware platforms for potential commercial product deployment.
New versions of Coyote will remain Open Source with the code base being buildable on both native Linux installations as well as WSL2 under Windows 11.