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Speaking again of HardenedBSD -

They could use a Wikipedia page. 

Keep up the good work.  I'm sure more people will flock in as it grows.

Two years or more?  I'll take it. 
You may not see it as an opportunity to pick up new users, but in my case that is exactly what is happening.

I don't know too much about HardenedBSD.  I will take a look.

OK - Done reading about HardenedBSD.  Seems like I may have seen the name "Franco" mentioned there as well.
Wearing a lot of hats are we?  Looks like a nice project.  Going to need more people though.  It will be overwhelming for just a few people to manage such an ambitious project. 

Looks like I'm not the only one who is worried about unnecessary obsolescence.
I'm not against buying hardware from vendors who work with opnsense.  It's smart in many cases.

However, I'm not going to buy any hardware from anyone who manage to turn new features such as AES-NI into a reason to break all my current deployments. 

I will install opensense starting with my X86 hardware and expand to all my hardware if it works well.

I see this whole debacle at pfsense as an opportunity for opnsense to grab a ton of users when peoples pfsense boxes cease to be supported. 

As far as when to end support for 32 bit boxes.  I think when the resources needed in terms of memory go beyond 4GB ram, or CPUs lack the processing power to keep up or BSD itself abandons 32 bit.  For me, those seem like the good reasons to drop 32 bit support.  We are nowhere near that point.  Matter of fact my old machines are more capable than most of the brand new official hardware being sold out there by every measure other than power consumption.  We just haven't hit the point when x86 and non-AES-NI processors can't hack it yet.

I'm thinking about switching from pfsense to opnsense.

There is no emotion involved in this, I just feel I'm going to either be forced to buy new hardware to replace hardware that is working fabulously or get left in a situation where no updates are available.

Before I do that, I just want to check and see if opnsense is on the same path as pfsense or is it going to offer legacy support.

So, are there any plans to scrap 32-bit support for opnsense or to make AES-NI mandatory for install?  Or are there any other arbitrary changes planned that would hasten the demise of my hardware unnecessarily?

Are there any other plans in the works that would force me to scrap x86 hardware with more than enough ram and cpu to run opnsense or to attempt to twist my arm to buy hardware from a friendly vendor when my current hardware works just fine?

I don't feel that machines sporting four fast cores, 4gb of ram, intel gigabit nics and ssd drives should be headed for the scrap heap.  Thats all.