LinuxBSDos.com article

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 18/02/2010 10:20, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:32 -0800, Charlie Kester <corky1951 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/
>>
>> "PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that's in a position to
>> compete with the best Linux desktop distributions..."
>>
>> <sigh>
> 
> This is a pretty realistic way to put it, IMO.  Note that, to PC-BSD's
> credit, it is compares with the *best* Linux distributions.  That's a
> nice way of saying how cool PC-BSD is :-)

Interesting though that the feature he chooses to highlight is the PF
configuration applet.  Sure PF knocks the socks off ipchains and the
other packet filters available under Linux, but judging by what he
shows, the configuration applet simplifies things so much it doesn't
really expose any of the bits that make PF special.  That applet could
generate configs for just about any packet filter in existence with no
change to the user interface.

Saying "there's this really great firewall on PC-BSD, but the
configuration app doesn't let you use it very well" doesn't really
strike me as a positive statement about PC-BSD.  Perhaps there's an "I
know what I'm doing" button somewhere yet to be mentioned which enables
managing more complicated stuff?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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