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Re: Smooth wall - more detailed



Alon Altman wrote:

> What about the fact that you can never trust a closed-source product for
> security?

Maybe the following words (taken from
http://www.astaro.com/about-us/index.html ) confused me:

> With our commitment to Linux and Open Source Software, we
> are building on a future-oriented platform that sets technical
> standards. Our technicians are heavily involved in the
> development of several open source projects - one of our goals is
> the release of our products under the GNU Public License.

But as Dani wrote, it's not a reason to ignore them.

The original discussion was about SmoothWall, and several issues were
raised against it (e.g. 2.4/iptables support). All of those issues don't
exist with Astaro, while another issue (licensing) exists. As people say:
"Nobody is perfect"...

Of course, it could be great if "somebody" could port one of the
"friendly" firewalls (e.g. Firewall Builder) to an existing 2.4 based
mini-distribution (like Devil-Linux; It requires building also other
stuff and dependencies like GNOME, and adding that to the ISO); However,
as I wrote, nobody is perfect, so meanwhile, people can use Linux
solutions like Astaro, although they involve licensing issues...

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Eli Marmor
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Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd.
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