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Trustix Secure Linux
Website	www.trustix.org
Company/ developer	Comodo Group
OS family	Linux
Source model	Open source
Latest stable release	3.0.5 /
Working state	Discontinued

In computing, Trustix Secure Linux is a Linux distribution intended for use on servers and focused on security and stability. It is "hardened", meaning that non-essential services and binaries are not installed, while UNIX staples like Sendmail are replaced by programs with better security reputations like Postfix.

Trustix takes a less radical approach to hardening than many other secure distributions or software sets (e.g. Security Enhanced Linux); the Linux kernel and security model remains unchanged and the distribution itself is based on Red Hat Linux.

Trustix was originally produced by Trustix AS. The company was established late in 1997 by entrepreneurs from USA and Norway. The company went bankrupt in 2003 and Comodo Group bought the assets in November 2003. Shortly thereafter Comodo announced the end of the free version of Trustix Secure Linux. The original Trustix team, including important community members, continued to maintain the software under the new name "Tawie Server Linux". Not long thereafter Comodo changed their minds and the free version reappeared, however, in that process they lost all the major community contributors. Some of these went off and made TinySofa Linux.

By late 2005 a series of budget cuts had resulted in many of the developers being laid off, and by early 2006 all members of the original Trustix team had left the company. Trustix Secure Linux continues to be maintained by a very small team of developers in India.

Comodo has announced that it will discontinue all distribution, updates and direct support for Trustix Secure Linux effective December 31, 2007. The user support forum at www.trustix.org/forum will continue to remain online throughout 2008.

Comodo will continue to support the Trustix Enterprise Firewall as a going forward product at http://firewall.trustix.com/small through at least the end of 2008, and will introduce version 4.8 before the end of 2007.