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<h2 id="public-domain-software">Public domain software</h2> <p>The Openwall project maintains also a list of algorithms and <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> which is <a href="/facts/Public_domain_software/LUpdqQXQ">public domain software</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="openwall-gnulinux-releases">Openwall GNU/*/Linux releases</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Openwall Version</th><th>Release date</th><th>End-of-life date</th><th>Kernel version</th></tr><tr><th>Old version, not maintained: 0.1</th><td>13 March 2002</td><td rowspan="6">?</td><td>2.2.20</td></tr><tr><th>Old version, not maintained: 1.0</th><td>2002-≈≤≥10-15</td><td>2.2.22</td></tr><tr><th>Old version, not maintained: 1.1</th><td>23 December 2003</td><td>2.4.23</td></tr><tr><th>Old version, not maintained: 2.0</th><td>14 February 2006</td><td>2.4.32</td></tr><tr><th>Old version, not maintained: 3.0</th><td>16 December 2010</td><td rowspan="2">2.6.18</td></tr><tr><th>Latest version: 3.1</th><td>5 January 2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4">Legend:Old version, not maintainedOld version, still maintainedLatest versionLatest preview versionFuture version</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/facts/LWN.net/8uTsltvM">LWN.net</a> reviewed Openwall Linux 3.0.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> They wrote: </p><blockquote><p>The first question most people will have is: what is so "security-enhanced" about Owl? Aren't major Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, openSUSE, and so on secure? Of course, they continuously patch known security vulnerabilities and some of them (Red Hat in particular) implement security features to decrease the impact of vulnerabilities, but none of them really are focused on preventing vulnerable software from getting into the distribution in the first place.</p></blockquote> <h2 id="pocgtfo"><i>PoC||GTFO</i></h2> <p class="note">Main article: ru:International Journal of Proof-of-Concept</p> <p>Issues of the <i>International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out</i> (<i>PoC||GTFO</i>) are mirrored by the Openwall Project under a <a href="/facts/Samizdat/r7JkkRnp">samizdat</a> licence.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The first issue #00 was published in 2013, issue #02 featured the <a href="/facts/Chaos_Computer_Club/XwXLlA5F">Chaos Computer Club</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Issue #07 in 2015 was a homage for <i><a href="/facts/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal/6Qov1hUK">Dr. Dobb's Journal</a></i>, which could be rendered as <a href="/facts/Portable_Document_Format/C9Mn1vYL">.pdf</a>, <a href="/facts/Zip_(file_format)/qDrrYIB9">.zip</a>, <a href="/facts/Better_Portable_Graphics/9E68RA50">.bpg</a>, or <a href="/facts/HTML/sSc3fT78">.html</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Executable_space_protection/WcI79ME5">Executable space protection</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions/DI2AtKjE">Comparison of Linux distributions</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Security-focused_operating_system/wQP8zlbh">Security-focused operating system</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/John_the_Ripper/aCkPM6dz">John the Ripper</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul> <li>FOSS portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://openwall.com">Official website</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openwall">OpenWall</a> at <a href="/facts/DistroWatch/PXUkruJo">DistroWatch</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Source code snippets and frameworks placed in the public domain on openwall.info <a href="https://openwall.info/wiki/people/solar/software/public-domain-source-code" target="_blank">https://openwall.info/wiki/people/solar/software/public-domain-source-code</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Openwall Linux 3.0: Linux for the security-conscious [LWN.net] <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/421540/" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/Articles/421540/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"International Journal of PoC || GTFO issues". Openwall Project. Retrieved 2015-03-21. <a href="https://openwall.info/wiki/people/solar/pocorgtfo" target="_blank">https://openwall.info/wiki/people/solar/pocorgtfo</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"PoC||GTFO or PoC or GTFO". alchemistowl.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15. <a href="https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/" target="_blank">https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Vier-in-eins - Poc||GTFO". lost+found (in German). Heise security. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2016-04-17. <a href="http://heise.de/-2582025" target="_blank">http://heise.de/-2582025</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>