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General Discussion / Re: Why BSD base. Why not Linux base?
« on: November 26, 2022, 05:49:07 pm »Are you saying that the main reason for sticking with BSD is pf?More or less, yes. And why would you switch a thriving well-received product to an inferior codebase - architecture wise?
We built our entire hosting platform on FreeBSD, running about 1000 customer instances. It's way cleaner, smaller, and easier to manage with a small team. We are well integrated into the community.
As for OPNsense I don't know how large Deciso's development team is. I can repeat that for limited resources BSD is the easier code base to work with. Facebook, Google et. al. all have their own kernel teams. They have to, given the current state of Linux developmenr. I don't see anything "switching to Linux" would improve in OPNsense. What exactly do you have in mind? What features are missing?
The one that easily comes to mind is hardware support for low end consumer devices? Sorry, that's the one point where I personally say: sorry, not interested. Run something Linux based, then.
I'm interested in a solid product based on something like this:
https://shop.opnsense.com/dec4000-series-opnsense-rack-security-appliance/
How would you improve this beyond what it already does by dropping BSD for Linux?
Kind regards,
Patrick