From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rob" Subject: RE: Best distro for firewalls. Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:11:09 -0600 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: References: <3DD0519C.B860FCAB@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3DD0519C.B860FCAB@gmx.de> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Netfilter HA, i hear ya on that one. I have personally liked RH for server setups, MDK for workstation OR server setups. MDK is based off of RH BUT it separates out the /etc to separate config folders a little more so your base /etc isnt so dirty. Robert Wideman >>-----Original Message----- >>From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org >>[mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Martin Stricker >>Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:56 PM >>To: netfilter@lists.samba.org >>Subject: Re: Best distro for firewalls. >> >> >>Vladas Keparoutis wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'd recommend gentoo (gentoo.org) >>> It is very flexible and fast with updates. >> >>Yeah, but you have to compile everything. On the 486 I use as a firewall >>this is more than a pain... >> >>Best regards, >>Martin Stricker >>-- >>Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ >>Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ >>Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ >>Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/