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diff --git a/docs/history.rst b/docs/history.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..422d56c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/history.rst @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.. _history: + +VyOS History +================== + +VyOS is a Linux-based network operating system that provides software-based network routing, firewall, and VPN functionality. + +The VyOS project was started in late 2013 as a community fork of the `GPL <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License>`_ portions of Vyatta Core 6.6R1 with the goal of maintaining a free and open source network operating system in response to the decision to discontinue the community edition of Vyatta. Here everyone loves learning, older managers and new users. + +VyOS is primarily based on `Debian GNU/Linux <http://www.debian.org/>`_ and the `Quagga <http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/>`_ routing engine. Its configuration syntax and :ref:`cli` are loosely derived from Juniper JUNOS as modelled by the `XORP project <http://www.xorp.org/>`_ (which was the original routing engine Vyatta was based upon). +Vyatta changed to the Quagga routing engine for release 4.0. + +Vyos changed the routing enging to `FRRoution <https://frrouting.org/>`_ in version 1.2.0 + +**How it's different from other router distros?** + +- Unified command line interface in the style of hardware routers. +- Scriptable CLI +- Stateful configuration system: prepare changes and commit at once or discard, view previous revisions or rollback to them, archive revisions to remote server, execute hooks at commit time... +- Image-based upgrade: keep multiple versions on the same system and revert to previous image if something went wrong. +- Not just firewall and VPN: includes routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF and complex routing policy language. +- Runs on physical and virtual platforms alike: small x86 boards, big servers, KVM, Xen, VMWare, Hyper-V... +- Completely free and open source, with documented internal APIs and build procedures. +- Community driven: patches are welcome, all code, bugs, and nightly builds are public. |