I'm not a roll-your-own firewall kind of guy. I generally find a distribution that is already tailored to my needs and go from there. Over the years, I've used MANY different Linux-based firewall distros and a couple BSD-based firewall distros. In my experience, the BSD-based systems require much less memory and CPU power and have been very stable and reliable. The downside, for me, is that I can't usually modify the system past what it was designed for, because my knowledge of BSD is so slim and there just isn't as much software available for BSD as there is for Linux-based systems.
I'm using both BSD-based and Linux-based systems in my organization because I try to use the systems best suited for the job and my abilities. pfSense is a firewall distribution that is BSD-based and it does some things (like load balancing) much better than any Linux-based system I've used. I also use Untangle (a Linux-based firewall distro) in transparent mode because it offers some features that work better than other distros (like traffic, content, and virus filtering.) My two cents. Chris On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>wrote: > Please, I am NOT trying to start a flame war, this is an honest request for > knowledge. > > I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux > and vice versa. I have read several articles talking about BSD being > carefully thought out as a whole and designed and tested to rigorous > standards where Linux is not, but I am wondering if this is still as true as > it once was. > > Pointing me in the direction of some current articles would be fine. > > Thanks, > > Andy > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
