"Let's hope tomorrow will be more productive than today's utter chaos -- a problem engineered by broken updates imposed by proprietary software vendors."The video speaks in passing about the latest Microsoft attack pattern (on Free software). The good news from Debian is also mentioned in passing [1, 2, 3]. Well done, Debian Project. Not another 'Open' SUSE or 'Open' Red Hat (IBM), a.k.a. Fedora. Incidentally, Robbi Nespu has just said: "After a while using and involve (contribute) with Fedora for fews years, I sometimes get a feel that Fedora and Red Hat moving so fast on everything and feel it not community oriented it more like leader oriented..."
Leader or master? IBM is the master of the project, and it really shows.
Let's hope tomorrow will be more productive than today's utter chaos -- a problem engineered by broken updates imposed by proprietary software vendors.
A senior BT engineer (a distinguished person who came over to fix a rather mysterious problem back when we only started exposing EPO leaks) once explained to me in very clear terms that each time the BT Hub is rebooted it will forcibly update itself (akin to network boot), which in itself is an optimal sort of 'back door'. You never really know and cannot even figure out what software powers up this device in your home (and they can tailor the OS just to you, depending on how you are classified); it's remotely controlled by somebody else, not you, and there's no way to stop it other than swapping everything with your own hardware and an operating system like OpenWRT. ⬆
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Shades72
2021-04-21 04:19:15
Both are pretty capable firewalls, but can do a lot more, if you install those packages yourself. And yes, your personal configuration setting can be stored and re-applied. Haven't had a hitch doing this and I'm using OPNSense for several years now.
Using the default settings will already take you quite far already in managing your LAN. Still, there are so many more options to tweak whatever you wish to tweak. All through rather responsive web-interfaces.
VPN (Wireguard, OpenVPN, ZeroTier), DNS, captive portal, bandwidth management and lots more stuff are already directly available (but not enabled by default). Both come with a extensive list of extra packages you could install at your behest. Logging, anti-virus, snort, ntp and lots more.
Both are FreeBSD based. And better yet, they are under your control. Well, under a lot more control than your current setup apparently.