ClarkConnect is een compleet besturingssysteem die een computer kan omvormen tot een dedicated gateway en een gemakkelijk te gebruiken server. Alle gebruikelijk features zijn aanwezig, waar onder een firewall, intrustion detection-systeem, Apache-webserver met CGI, PHP en SSL ondersteuning, fileserver met FTP, Windows en AppleShare, mailserver met POP, IMAP en SMTP, ingebouwde webproxyfilter, printerserver met ondersteuning voor Samba en natuurlijk DHCP- en DNS-services. Point Clark Networks heeft bètaversie 3.1 naar buiten gebracht met de volgende release notes:
Major features in 3.1 include:Known Issues
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 4 core
- LAN and system backup
- Significant firewall speed improvement
- New intrusion detection reports
- New intrusion prevention features
- Peer-to-peer bandwidth shaping
- PPTP pass-through mode
- Content filter phrase list configuration
- Speakup support
- ... and a few other changes.
Differences Between ClarkConnect and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- The build did not incorporate some of the latest updates from the software development team.
- Modules are only available from the command line apt-get tool (not webconfig)
- We are evaluating the DHCP server capabilities of Dnsmasq. Right now, it is possible to have both the old DHCP server and the new Dnsmasq-based DHCP server installed at the same time.
- The Speakup support is broken in the installer.
- There are cosmetic issues in many places (for example, the boot splash)
- The intrusion detection report fails when no records are found
- The locale/Internationalization is a work in progress (translators: wait for the next build)
- We have not completed all the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Errata
The core packages in ClarkConnect are built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Source RPMS. However, we have made a few changes:
- We decided to put aside the udev implementation. The implementation is a nice feature for desktop systems, but not all that important for server systems.
- The MySQL package was split into "mysql" and "mysql-client".
- The distcache feature in the Apache web server was disabled.
- PPTP, firewall and peer-to-peer patches were added to the kernel.
- The Megaraid driver in the kernel was downgraded.