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General Discussion / ALIX/i386 support?
« on: March 13, 2017, 01:47:26 pm »
Hi everyone,
pfSense refugee here. :-)
I've been running pfSense on ALIX 2d3 hardware for a few years as my home gateway. (https://pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm)
I recently learned that the pfSense team has decided to end-of-life support for this platform. (Actually the i386 architecture entirely, from what I understand, I guess they're moving to 64-bit.) That caused me to start looking for other options, and I wound up here.
I really like what I see in opnsense so far, but before I commit myself to it and spend a lot of time setting everything up, I just wanted to check to be sure that the same isn't going to happen anytime soon with opnsense?
I did take a look at the roadmap on the web site, and I noticed that it lists "Functional second slice on NanoBSD images" as a future goal, which is a promising sign, but I didn't see anything that definitively says that continuing support for ALIX/i386 is a long-term goal.
Could someone tell me what the long-term plans are for support of this platform?
I know that "time marches on", but for a home network on a < 100mbps connection, this is still perfectly capable hardware for a router, so I just can't see any point in throwing it in the trash and starting over.
Thanks!
pfSense refugee here. :-)
I've been running pfSense on ALIX 2d3 hardware for a few years as my home gateway. (https://pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm)
I recently learned that the pfSense team has decided to end-of-life support for this platform. (Actually the i386 architecture entirely, from what I understand, I guess they're moving to 64-bit.) That caused me to start looking for other options, and I wound up here.
I really like what I see in opnsense so far, but before I commit myself to it and spend a lot of time setting everything up, I just wanted to check to be sure that the same isn't going to happen anytime soon with opnsense?
I did take a look at the roadmap on the web site, and I noticed that it lists "Functional second slice on NanoBSD images" as a future goal, which is a promising sign, but I didn't see anything that definitively says that continuing support for ALIX/i386 is a long-term goal.
Could someone tell me what the long-term plans are for support of this platform?
I know that "time marches on", but for a home network on a < 100mbps connection, this is still perfectly capable hardware for a router, so I just can't see any point in throwing it in the trash and starting over.
Thanks!