Privacytools.io: Consider change pfsense to opnsense

Created on 18 Aug 2018 · 6Comments · Source: privacytools/privacytools.io

I saw you suggesting pfsense. but recently pfsense is buyed by company. and another and better fork is here.
https://opnsense.org/

even m0n0wall (pfsense forked) advice opnsense rather than pfsense

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bitdegree67

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A real concern with pfSense is transparency. Since Netgate bought the majority share of pfSense and renamed the company to ESF it has been difficult to understand the direction they want the project to go. Removing the tools from github without prior warning and using the brand name to fence off competitors has scared quite a lot of people. Also the license had changed for no apparent reason…

In 2014, pfSense® software was upgraded from a BSD license to an Apache 2 license, with numerous very restrictive clauses on project contribution and re-distribution terms.
These changes contributed to the mobilization of the companies that participated or financed the pfSense® project (directly or indirectly) that encouraged the OPNSense fork and thus enabled its launch.

OPNsense® offers significant advances over its counterpart pfSense® software in security, code quality and interface.

I invite you not to trust me and see for yourself how opnsense has better features than pfsense plus is more transparent

bitdegree67 on 22 Aug 2018

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OPNsense - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPNsense

Source code
https://github.com/opnsense

Hillside502 on 18 Aug 2018

@bitdegree67 who bought them recently? I don't see any news about it. And why do you want to replace PFSense with OPNSense? The only reason is it's a better fork? How? Why? Also PFSense is still open source the last time I check and they're both on the same level.

If anything, you should say, add OPNSense alongside with PFSense. If you want to replace it, you have to have some damning news about them, they went closed-source, or have a really good argument more than "it's better".