[ale] Smoothwall 2.0 or IPCop 1.3.0?

[Thomas Wood]

James,
I've been contemplating a smoothwall box for my home network for awhile 
now.  I've found the official forums at smoothwall.org (warning: they 
are British and use that annoying "e" in the middle--and I'm too lazy 
to check) are quite informative.  The IPCop vs Smoothwall argument is a 
constant one, and good points are frequently raised for both.  Check it 
out for yourself.

HTH

wood
On Feb 5, 2004, at 9:15 PM, James Sumners wrote:

> Thanks for the input. I have IPCop running in a virtual environment 
> right now to
> test it out. So far I really dig it.
>
> James Sumners
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:54:05 -0500
> James Sumners <james at sumners.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>> I am considering replacing a Linksys WRT54G with a Linux box. The 
>> Linksys is
>> working fine but it doesn't quite cut it. My question to you is, 
>> would you
>> recommend Smoothwall 2.0 over IPCop 1.3.0 or vice versa? I don't 
>> really want
>> to sit down and write my own firewall scripts and web front end when 
>> there is
>> already a solution.
>>
>> I know that IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall but it forked a long time 
>> ago. I
>> will be playing with both of them in a virtual environment but it may 
>> be some
>> time before I get that set up and I would like to know if someone 
>> already has
>> an opinion of one over the other (e.g. this one does this where that 
>> one
>> doesn't type stuff).
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the 
>> more it
>> looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find 
>> anything
>> technically interesting there. In my opinion MS is a lot better at 
>> making
>> money than it is at making good operating systems.  -- Linus Torvalds
>>
>
>
> -- 
>
> I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the 
> more it
> looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find 
> anything
> technically interesting there. In my opinion MS is a lot better at 
> making money
> than it is at making good operating systems.  -- Linus Torvalds
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