--- Shashank Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you will be using same set of software/tools (for your purpose) so it > doesn't really matter what distro you select. you should chose the > one > you are comfortable with and which you can tune for better security > and better performance on the hardware you have I was thinking more in terms of the kernel footprint. Fedora is probably the most plug and play kind of kernel configured on it but that is not necessarily good. I would atleast need PCMCIA and USB support on - because it is a laptop and that is the only way I can have two physical network devices on it :). Is any of the distro more tuned to act as a firewall other than the BSD variants ? > You can strip down fedora as well to run satisfactorily on a less > powered hardware. FC2 can be a good option if you don't want frequent > security updates. it works fine on 200 MHz Pentium-class or better > processor, you can have a minimal installation of 620MB, and memory > required is 64 MB. The advantage of the distro being the 2.6 kernel, > which is *supposed to be* faster and implementation of SELinux. Is 2.6 kernel really worth installing on a firewall ? I believe some features of IPTABLES are missing in the 2.4 kernel port but I am not very sure what they are and what their impact would be. > FC3 still receives quite a few security updates, and FC4 will demand > an administrator on his toes always :) so I won't recommend those. That is not a problem for me. I would rather go for an actively supported distro with frequent updates rather the other way round. Mithun __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
