[ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

http://www.smoothwall.org/home/articles/dickmorrell/20020322.time.html

Seems Smoothwall and IPCop aren't the best of buddies these days ...

Smoothwall GPL _is_ GPL, only unsupported. Smoothwall Commercial == GPL +
Stuff Smoothwall.co.uk added themselves to make it "nicer"

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> -----Original Message-----
> Hi,
> 
> Firstly, just to remind you that I'm always going to be a newbie, and 
> command line entries are not my forte. I don't have the knowledge, time or
> 
> abilty to make my own firewall.
> 
> So, I looked up suitable options on the 'net, and found Smoothwall, which 
> happened to be on a Linux Format CD I've got.
> 
> Installation seems OK, but I do have some concerns about the commercial 
> aspects that appear to crop up, and some really abusive stuff seems to
> have 
> emanated from the author(s) of the software, directed at 'the community'.
> 
> Other GPL concerns seem to be relevant.
> 
> So, I've found IpCop, which claims to deal with these issues, while doing 
> the same job.
> 
> Any ideas about which I should use?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> pps
>