Hi Ryan, I do not write code, nor have a big interest in license issues.
I am using a 5501 at home as a network device with a ADSL card. I use it as dhcp server, firewall and webserver. And I have tried both OpenBSD and Debian. My experience is, that both are equally easy to set up - relatively speaking. The pxe boot process still takes time in a simple home network. The next soekris model will introduce bootable usb media, which might ease the installation process. The OpenBSD experience can be simpler, better documented, with one recommend way to do simple and complex things. The Debian experience can be more complex, more fragmented documentation, with many ways and many different advices on how to do even simple things. I am currently running Debian 6, and the tipping point for me was that I wanted to use a specific piece of software, One Wire File System (OWFS) to read some environmental sensors. Some software is more native to Linux and even that it is possible to build on OpenBSD, it is easier to communicate about specific problems on the native platform. As usual the answer is... it depends... and in my case it depended on the ease of building the latest OWFS. Regards, Mads _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
