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Re:ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems by clipradiowallet on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:18AM (#27793488)
ClearOS is the rebranded "ClarkConnect" distro I believe. I'm not sure when the rebranding happened(10+ years ago?) anymore, but I was surprised to find out the project is still alive at all. I've only encountered 1 human who used the software in my life, and that encounter was 15+ years ago.

For history, it used to be an all-in-one network services distro. It handled your core network services like DHCP and VPNs - but also handled service-oriented daemons like FTP/SMTP.

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Re:ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems by lenova on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:06PM (#27794329)
ClarkConnect, oh wow, there's a name I haven't heard in ages.

I'm flashing back to all of the various small-office firewall appliance distributions from that era. ClarkConnect, Smoothwall, m0n0wall... there were others that I'm blanking on.

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Re:ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems by cpach on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:09AM (#27793852)
Interesting! A few weeks ago a sales guy at my job mentioned ClarkConnect. I became curious since that was the first time I’ve heard someone mentioning that product.

Apparently it seems like the foundation that manages ClearOS also created some kinda cryptocoin?!

https://news.clear.co.com/all-clearos-users-now-can-get-free...

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Re:ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems by sureglymop on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:06PM (#27796477)
Does that seem like a red flag to anyone else or just me?
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Re:ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems by cpach on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:31PM (#27796601)
Me too. Can’t see anything good come out of that.
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Re:ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems by indigodaddy on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:53PM (#27794734)
I used ClarkConnect for a tiny little shop I worked for in 2007 for setting up an SMB share to use for shared Excel/Access functionality. I was just learning Linux and not that familiar with distros or how to setup file servers manually, so it made it quite easy.
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Re:ClearOS – OS for Your Server, Network, and Gateway Systems by polartx on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:17PM (#27795741)
You are correct. Check out Directpointe for insight into the ClearOS’s founders earlier ventures. They used ClarkConnect on a few of their customers tech stacks as well.
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