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15.1 Legacy Series / Re: Transitioning from m0n0wall to OPNsense
« on: May 28, 2015, 08:58:40 am »
Probably too late to this conversation, but the great thing about M0n0wall's smallness wasn't that it would run on hardware X, or that it would run with only Y gigs of RAM, or that the menus were less threatening. It was that M0n0wall's minimalist approach met most needs--basic and advanced--while maintaining a minimal attack surface. Less attack surface == more sleep == fewer heart attacks. The memory and CPU savings were just gravy.
From the specs, OPNsense looks more like a full-blown BSD distro than a network appliance. If the rest of FreeBSD is coming along for the ride anyway, why even roll a new distro? Why not just make it an optional package inside FreeBSD?
I am really curious as to how Manuel sees OPNsense as a replacement for M0n0wall???
From the specs, OPNsense looks more like a full-blown BSD distro than a network appliance. If the rest of FreeBSD is coming along for the ride anyway, why even roll a new distro? Why not just make it an optional package inside FreeBSD?
I am really curious as to how Manuel sees OPNsense as a replacement for M0n0wall???