From owner-freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 17:23:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D7C106564A for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44438FC13 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:23:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from vampire.homelinux.org (dslb-088-064-183-126.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.64.183.126]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML25U-1LbeWG2Zes-0006h1; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:23:04 +0100 Received: (qmail 57777 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2009 17:23:04 -0000 Received: from fbsd8.laiers.local (192.168.4.200) by router.laiers.local with SMTP; 23 Feb 2009 17:23:04 -0000 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:23:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.0; i386; ; ) References: <139b44430902230006q310a2a39gb9f7ea9fe3ad0953@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <139b44430902230006q310a2a39gb9f7ea9fe3ad0953@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902231823.04018.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX190bA4StM5R4APi0ZG4uhx7EgFKru14lTFxn8E hgS8L1Q4FMey+8G7Y0teccnmQ7JgmIeFunmltCQe5sxc+rfm9q dh22RJq60/f5/eJW7DDcg== Cc: Subject: Re: a "strange" question about OSs X-BeenThere: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion and general questions about packet filter \(pf\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:23:06 -0000 Hello Valentin, first off - this is the completely wrong mailing list! Please refrain from further requests to it in relation to this or similar request. To your question ... On Monday 23 February 2009 09:06:12 Valentin Bud wrote: > The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from > the following list > to replace FBSD: > > - OpenSUSE 10.3 > - Debian 4.0 > - CentOS 5 CentOS seems to be the only one of these to be at least somewhat current - both SuSE and Debian have released newer *major* versions meanwhile. CentOS is at 5.2, which only has kernel-2.6.18 however. > The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the > economical crisis to > save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS > but the one > they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above > mentioned. I personally would stay clear of any provider that is offering only the above choice. IMHO, it rules them out as rather unprofessional. > I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in > production. I like it and > learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the > new OS which I'm not afraid > of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some > similarities with FBSD. If you are concerned with firewall setup (as this is a mailing list pertaining to a *BSD specific firewall software: PF) you won't find a suitable replacement in the linux world. Linux uses iptables to manage the packet filter which is completely different from pf in design and setup and you will probably have to start from scratch to learn how to use it. OTOH, you might find the following links helpful: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News