Stormix was a company who debuted their Debian-based Linux distribution with "Storm Linux 2000" in late 1999. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Stormix was an off-shoot of NetNations Communications, at the time, one of the top-ten web hosting companies in the world. In addition to Storm Linux, the company also produced a personal firewall, and began development of a customized rack mount server. Although making an impressive showing at Linuxworld and in the Linux trade magazines the company filed for bankruptcy around January of 2001. The company's Storm Package Manager was released under the GNU Public Licence and is currently part of Debian's stable release, but no longer appears to be in active development.