Stormix Technologies Inc. was a company that debuted its
Debian
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-based
Linux distribution
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with "Storm Linux 2000" in late 1999. Headquartered in the
Harbour Centre,
Vancouver, British Columbia
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, Stormix was an offshoot of NetNation Communications, at the time, one of the top-ten
web hosting
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companies. In addition to Storm Linux, the company also produced a
personal firewall, and began development of a customized
rack mount
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server and dedicated
VPN appliance. The company was probably one of the many ones overwhelmed by the
dot-com bubble
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when it did not find more funds to continue the business at the beginning of 2001.
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