Once upon a time I was the CTO of Wayport. We put a few ten thousand Debian machines in the world, all remote, acting as access controllers.
Some of the other people involved now also work at Netgate. Let's just say: 1) We are more than familiar 2) there are severe security issues with the Debian model 3) never again. :-) There are ... somewhat similar ideas under internal consideration, potentially using either/both Linux and FreeBSD as a base, but the time is not yet come to more fully expose same. -- Jim > On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:34, Adrian Zaugg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 10/13/13 7:03 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: >> One possible solution: signed packages, and there was a bit of >> infrastructure put in-place just prior to the 2.1 release. >> We’ve yet to accomplish the rest of this, but.. it’s coming. >> >> As always, if you have ideas(*), bring them forward. > I already hear everybody shouting, when bringing in the following idea: > Base pfsense on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Debian has some great features, > like it's packaging system and it's build infrastructure. I could > imaginge to have a virtual package pfsense, which depends on all > official Debian kFreeBSD packages that pfsense needs to run plus the > ones which are unique to pfsense provided by a pfsense repository (or on > a long term get even incorporated into Debian). Debian has package > signing and does a lot to have a working, secure system. I could imagine > many tasks that pfsense developers do, would be done by Debian, also > pfsense could profit from Debian's infrastructure. You could concentrate > on pfsense and could get the distribution type of work done. > > If you like to flame me for this, my private mail box is open ...:-) > > Regards, Adrian. > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
