只要拥有Linux开源软件的帮助，并且再拥有一点来自ClarkConnect的帮助，你就可以将一台标准的PC机转化成一台专用的宽带网关和易用的网络服务器。ClarkConnect对小型企业、家庭办公室和联网家庭而言是一份优秀的解决方案。它在Red Hat的基础上移除了不必要的软件并进行了安全加固，一些有用的Internet网关软件被添加进来，并且安装过程也被设计得更加简便。

        Point Clark Networks has announced the availability of first release candidate for ClarkConnect 5.0, a specialist firewall and gateway distribution based on CentOS: "ClarkConnect 5.0 release candidate 1 is now available. What's new? For new installations, ClarkConnect 5.0 is close to final-release quality. There are a number of known issues that need to be addressed; notably, the LDAP/Samba initialization is still fragile. There are literally a couple of dozen steps performed to initialize LDAP/Samba and ClarkConnect needs to handle the scenarios where any of the steps fail. We are not quite there yet! For upgrades, this release should be considered beta quality and not as thoroughly tested. Known issues: Samba/LDAP initialization is fragile; starting the CUPS print server for the first time will hang Webconfig; remote backup is not working (the remote side is a work in progress)." Read the rest of the release notes for further details. Download: community-5.0-rc1.iso (589MB, MD5).（责任编辑：A6）